High-skilled workers and high-productivity firms co-locate in large cities. In this paper, I study how the two-sided sorting of workers and firms affects spatial earnings inequality, efficiency of the allocation of workers and firms across cities, and the welfare consequences of place-based...

The study ascertains to what extent immigrants in major German cities spend more time on daily mobility and attempts to identify the underlying reasons for this phenomenon. High travel time expenditures have detrimental impacts on health and well-being, employment, and civic engagement besides...