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The provision of public transportation can improve the accessibility of work opportunities. However, predicting the labor market effects of new transit infrastructure is difficult because of endogenous worker decisions. I examine a large public-transit rail project on the island of Oahu, Hawaii....
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different residential locations and therefore, conditional on workplace location, have different commuting patterns. Empirical … instrumental variables to deal with endogenity of household income by observing that commuting may affect wages only when workers …-term effects, and avoid that due to the presence of residential moving costs, few workers immediately change commuting distance by …
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Gentrification in the form of ‘neighbourhood revitalization’ is increasingly touted as one way of decreasing the social exclusion of residents of poor inner-city neighbourhoods and of increasing levels of social mix and social interaction between different classes and ethnic groups. Yet, the...
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Since the 1970's, American inner cities, particularly in the northeast, have undergone significant economic, structural and aesthetic changes. Many cities with predominantly blue collar work forces have found it difficult to adjust to the changing demands of the market place. An economic...
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