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well as urban commuting and shopping patterns are considerably affected by, e.g., changes in the average household size in … a city. For instance, wage inequality between differently skilled workers rises and extreme cross commuting drops to … ; Location ; Commuting …
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Employing a standard matching unemployment model extended by within-labor-market-regions commuting, this paper analyzes … the tradeoff between commuting costs and unemployment. Depending on whether commuters are able to bargain for fringe … the willingness to out-commute. -- Unemployment ; matching ; commuting ; search ; labor market policy …
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Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from … urban sprawl characterized by suburbanization of residences and jobs, increasing commuting distances and spatial city growth …. -- Urban general equilibrium model ; commuting subsidies ; income tax deduction …
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predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects … ; commuting …
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labor market in which workers? location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the …. Given differences in commuting costs between the employed and the unemployed, this is realized by a change in the fraction …
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districts, incomplete segregation of citizens who work in different business centers and, therefore, cross commuting, and …
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This paper examines the relative merits of compact cities or urban sprawl (suburban settlement patterns) as a spatial solution to environmental problems (such as climate control), automobile dependence, economic development, infrastructure costs and the quality of urban life.
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Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from … on urban sprawl characterized by suburbanization of residences and jobs and increasing commuting distances. …
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, incomplete segregation of citizens who work in different business centers and, therefore, cross commuting, and incomplete …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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