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ACCESS Magazine, Spring 1995
Giuliano, Genevieve; Sperling, Daniel; Turrentine, Thomas; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 1995
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The Weakening Transportation-Land Use Connection
Giuliano, Genevieve - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 1995
The precise relationship between transportation and land use continues to elude us. It seems self-evident that … transportation facilities and services have enormous effects on land use patterns. We've all observed developments occur around …
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Highway Blues: Nothing a Little Accessibility Can't Cure
Handy, Susan - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 1994
I recently moved from Berkeley to Austin, the "Berkeley of Texas." Although there are similarities, and Austin is certainly as close to Berkeley as Texas gets, there are plenty of things I miss about Berkeley. I miss the hills and the bay. I miss good Chinese food and Thai food, Super Burritos,...
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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
training: the expected wage. However, training might have no direct effect on wage, but, nevertheless, affect employment … that training has no significant impact on the mean offered wage in bluecollar occupation, but training increases the mean … offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19 percent. Training also substantially increases the job offer rates in both …
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
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Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina; Koslowski, Alison; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets …
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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly individual-level data for West Germany for the period...
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The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wilkins, Roger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans is the effect of second hand smoke on non-smokers. From...
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The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions Between Different Labour Market States
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
An important policy issue is whether the National Minimum Wage (NMW) introduced in Britain in April 1999, is a stepping … stone to higher wages or traps workers in a low-wage – nowage cycle. In this paper we utilise the longitudinal element of … the Labour Force Survey over the period 1999 to 2003 to model transitions between different labour market states – payment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233825
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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities
Cohen, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
rate of return from white-collar training is relatively low and takes time. As a result, the annual aggregate wage growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233851