This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...

This thesis consists of two papers in the field of labor economics.The first paper is titled ”The Distribution of Value of Time: An Analysis from Traffic Congestion and Express Lanes”. The value of time (VOT) determines the allocation of non-labor time to tasks and is crucial in travel...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...