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Revealed Preferences and Spatial Segregation

Busson, Henri - 2015

variables to explain it: income elasticity of housing demand, commuting time or amenity consumption. Moreover, in our model …

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Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015

In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize their commuting time, employees do not minimize their...

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Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being

Tani, Massimiliano - 2015

The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...

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Car Ownership and Residential Parking Subsidies: Evidence from Amsterdam

de Groote, Jesper; van Ommeren, Jos N.; Koster, Hans R.A. - 2015

Many cities around the world have introduced paid parking but implicitly subsidize parking for example by providing residential parking permits for street parking. We study the welfare effects of residential parking subsidies through changes in car ownership for Amsterdam. We employ a...

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Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from China Household Income Project

Yang, Sui - 2015

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...

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The nature of agricultural markets: Output marketing in Tanzania

Boulay, Basile - 2015

This paper uses the three available waves of data from the Tanzanian National Panel Surveys to study different agricultural markets. We use crop level data to analyse the factors influencing farmers' choice between selling to market or retaining output for household consumption, allowing for...

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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are commonly referred to as "dersane" in Turkish. This...

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The Commuting Distribution

van Ommeren, Jos - 2004

In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which conditions the commuting distribution is unimodal which isone of the stylised facts of commuting. It appears that a necessary condition is that space istwo-dimensional. Furthermore, one...

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Identification of 'Wasteful Commuting' using Search Theory

Ommeren, Jos Van; der Straaten, Willemijn Van - 2005

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...

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Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia

Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Camacho, Carolina; Fajardo, … - 2011

This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It … also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of life and the quality of dwelling of the … aimed at easing access of low-income households to affordable housing such as subsidies and loan guarantees have played a …

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