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 … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

local labour market. In addition, there is a clear negative effect of home ownership on the unemployment risk and a positive …

women experience longer unemployment durations and comparable hourly wage losses. Displaced expectant mothers experience … female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages …

This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …

unemployment duration between homeowners and renters across geographic areas differentiated by the severity of the decline in home … method that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in … their home. I analyze the relationship between such "house lock" and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment …

affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment … components, while interest payments speed up re-employment. The results on subsequent match quality in form of job duration and …

This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the … determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …