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Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G F; Wasmer, Etienne - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … selection will bias downward the wage impact of commuting, and marginally affect the coefficients on education, age and gender …

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Local consumption and territorial based accounting for CO2 emissions

Hermannsson, Kristinn; McIntyre, Stuart G - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2013

We examine the complications involved in attributing emissions at a sub-regional or local level. Specifically, we look at how functional specialisation embedded within the metropolitan area can, via trade between sub-regions, create intra- metropolitan emissions interdependencies; and how this...

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Growth of the urban shadow, spatial distribution of economic activities and commuting by workers in rural and Urban India

Sharma, Ajay; Chandrasekhar, S - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2014

Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This … concentration of secondary sector jobs are more likely to have commuting workers. Regional rural and urban unemployment rates and …

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From the tank to climate change: multiple environmental impacts of wastewater management

Legras, Sophie - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2013

this framework, where development is assumed contiguous, we analyse how wastewater management and commuting costs impact on … to the polycentric setting allows introducing heterogeneities in wastewater and commuting costs that illustrate how …

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Revisiting reference point formation, gains–losses asymmetry and non-linear sensitivities with an emphasis on attribute specific treatment

Stathopoulos, Amanda; Hess, Stephane - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 10, pp. 1673-1689

In contrast with expected utility theory, empirical findings indicate that decision-makers are sensitive to departures from reference points rather than states. Several tests of the reference-dependent preference framework have been carried out in experimental economics, and to a smaller extent...

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Optimization of internal migration as a mechanism for solving the problems of monotowns in Sverdlovsk region

Nekrasova, Yevgeniya - In: Economy of region 1 (2012) 2, pp. 315-320

family is made. The necessity of optimization of commuting between the territories of the municipal level to address the one … the municipal level for commuting by road was developed. Testing was conducted on a model example of the six type …

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Charging versus rewarding: A comparison of road-pricing and rewarding peak avoidance in the Netherlands

Tillema, Taede; Ben-Elia, Eran; Ettema, Dick; van … - In: Transport Policy 26 (2013) C, pp. 4-14

The aim of this paper is to compare two congestion management schemes – road-pricing and peak avoidance rewarding – and their impact on commuter behaviour, based on two studies that were conducted in the Netherlands. The road-pricing study is based on stated preference data, whereas the...

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Commuting trade-offs and distance reduction in two-worker households

Surprenant-Legault, Julien; Patterson, Zachary; … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 51 (2013) C, pp. 12-28

distance, rather two-worker households apply strategies to decrease their total commuting distance. This research could help … policy makers in better understanding the commuting patterns of two-worker households to help in adapting land use and …

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Access to Workers or Employers? An Intra-Urban Analysis of Plant Location Decisions

Kutzbach, Mark J. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2010

This analysis attributes economies of agglomeration to either labor market pooling or employer-based productivity spillovers by distinguishing the effect of access to workers, measured by place-of-residence, from the effect of access to employers. New establishment location choices serve as a...

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Dynamics and local policy in labour commuting

Drobne, Samo; Bogataj, Marija; Lisec, Anka - In: Business Systems Research 3 (2012) 2, pp. 14-26

, employment rate and average gross earnings, to labour commuting flows in Slovenia is analysed for the period 2000 – 2009 … regarding the analysed parameters to support local labour commuting policy. Methods/Approach: The influence of the analysed … parameters to the labour commuting flows has been studied in the extended gravity model. The change of the influence of …

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