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urban employment but the transportation policy has much more drastic effects. This is because a decrease in commuting costs …
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administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational …
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substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home … pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in … owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher …
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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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We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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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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and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …
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Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...
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. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages … are willing to live closer to jobs to save on time commuting costs. We show that, in equilibrium, there is a one … commuting costs and land rent create additional frictions in the labor market. …
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We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy. We find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to take up a flexible job...
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