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This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was launched in May 2008 with the aim of increasing the use of the bicycle in the city. Since then, the...
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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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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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commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our … empirical results show that the probability of self-employment is negatively related to the "expected" commuting time, giving …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our … pattern of commuting and the employees-to-unemployed rate, although we find higher wages in comparatively crowded states …
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extreme weather conditions is that of personal travel, including commuting, an activity that is done daily by millions of … workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices … workers, finding significant relationships between daily weather conditions, commuting time, and travel choices. Rainy days …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between potential worker supply, measured through sex ratios, and commuting … times in the United States. Using the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014, we analyze the relationship between commuting … commuting times of both male and female workers. Furthermore, this result applies to both private and public sector employees …
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This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a … lower proportion of commuting by private car, and higher proportions of commuting by public transport and/or a physical mode …
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commuting time in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK, with male workers …This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last … three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those …
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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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