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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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We describe an unsupervised method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks … classification stabilities. We demonstrate our method using historical Census commuting data from New Zealand. …
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waiting, £8.4 ($10.5) per hour of commuting, and £17.2 ($21.5) per hour of waiting during commuting (e.g. due to congestion …
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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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This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. 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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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 … bargaining power of women with young children is essentially zero. -- Commuting ; search model ; simultaneous equations …
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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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