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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …
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market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we …, and marital status. These differences among men and women amount to 50%, and 100%, respectively, of the gender commuting … commuting time are also significantly smaller in same-sex couples, and labor supply disparities mimic the commuting ones …
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Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...
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home on commuting time are biased downward because most studies ignore preference based sorting (self-selection): workers … who dislike commuting, and hence have shorter commutes, might also be more likely to work from home.In this paper we … percent higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting …
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This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different … health behavior are barely affected by commuting time, subjective health measures are clearly lower for people who commute … longer. A longer commuting time is, moreover, related to more visits to the general practitioner. Effects turn out to be more …
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The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …
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commuting costs the effect of housing frictions plays a large role and can generate a substantial decline in mobility. We show …
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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 …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is … commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …
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