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In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from … granted freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints, commuting costs are severely reduced. Using data from the …
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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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teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger … on commuting across different levels of urbanization and across occupations. This study stresses the effects of …
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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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substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home … pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in … owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher …
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tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set covering the 27 largest US cities, years 1980-2010, we employ a city …
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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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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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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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