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Tendências e desigualdades da mobilidade urbana no Brasil II: Características e padrões de consumo da mobilidade por aplicativo
Warwar, Lucas; Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes - 2022
paper presents the first national study on how the use of ride-hailing in Brazil vary by income, race, sex, and age, and … data source hitherto little used for transportation studies in Brazil. The use of ride-hailing in Brazil is still limited … 60% of all ride-hailing users in Brazil are concentrated in one of the ten largest metropolitan areas in the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278369
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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009) : differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2013
This study analyzes trends in average commute times in Brazil between 1992 and 2009. It distinguishes between the nine … Brazil. PNAD data is not conceived strictly for transport planning but is the only large-scale survey in Brazil with annual … economies, such as Brazil, need not follow the same trajectories as in the Global North. It also shows the importance of not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737418
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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009) : differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2015
This study analyzes trends in average commute times in Brazil between 1992 and 2009. It distinguishes between the nine … Brazil. PNAD data is not conceived strictly for transport planning but is the only large-scale survey in Brazil with annual …, such as Brazil, need not follow the same trajectories as in the Global North. It also shows the importance of not focusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056274
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Tendências e desigualdades da mobilidade urbana no Brasil II : características e padrões de consumo da mobilidade por aplicativo
Warwar, Lucas; Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes - 2022
paper presents the first national study on how the use of ride-hailing in Brazil vary by income, race, sex, and age, and … data source hitherto little used for transportation studies in Brazil. The use of ride-hailing in Brazil is still limited … 60% of all ride-hailing users in Brazil are concentrated in one of the ten largest metropolitan areas in the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336040
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Transport Costs and the Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth-Century China
Shiue, Carol H. - 2003
Trade has been considered a condition for growth and development, a view that might have merits in explaining the rise of the Western world. I use a new data set from archival sources of eighteenth-century China to revisit this question. This analysis suggests previous studies of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089840
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The Future of Latin American and Caribbean Cities : Urban Bias and Political Fragments in Place
Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto - 2021
In this chapter I provide some reflections on the fragmentation of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) urban landscapes and some speculations about the future of urban bias and inequalities in the decades to come. Latin American and Caribbean societies will no longer be divided according to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322412
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Old But Gold : Historical Pathways and Path Dependence
Baerlocher, Diogo; Silva, Diego Firmino Costa da; … - 2023
We use the discovery of gold in Brazil as a historical quasi-experiment and show that gold roads are positively … century to build a nationwide transportation network that grew from the gold roads to show that the entire network also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346321
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Has Trade Liberalization Increased Economic Inequality among the Mexican States? An Analysis from a Spatial Econometric Perspective
Germán-Soto, Vicente; Sagaz, José Luis Escobedo - In: Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA XX (2011) 1, pp. 37-77
What are the empirical effects of trade liberalization? This question is debated nowadays, in both an international and a regional scope. This work analyzes the economic inequality among Mexican states by means of a convergence methodology and spatial econometrics techniques. Results indicate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763979
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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283185
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Invest Locally or Globally? A Normative Analysis of Transport Policies in a Footloose Capital Model with Interregional Intraregional Transportation Costs
Chiambaretto, Paul - 2011
In this paper, we introduce a distinction between interregional and intraregional transportation costs, in a footloose capital model. This allows assessing more precisely the effects of different types of transport policies, on the spatial distribution of activities. From a normative point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123680