Providing recently laid off workers with cash benefits may help them overcome mobility costs and thereby stimulate labor mobility. On the other hand, cash benefits may dampen the employment shock and reduce the incentive to move. In this paper, we test these two competing mechanisms against each...

Providing recently laid offworkers with cash benefits may help them overcome mobility costs and thereby stimulate labor mobility. On the other hand, cash benefits may dampen the employment shock and reduce the incentive to move. In this paper, we test these two competing mechanisms against each...

This paper examines the effects of emergency food assistance on human mobility patterns between March and August of 2020. We study a large public-private initiative in Colombia, created to deliver food aid to one million households at risk of falling into poverty and previously not included in...

Mobility, as a social science category, is usually understood as the mobility of social advancement or decline of individuals or groups in an unequal, hierarchical society. Recently, there have been increased efforts to examine the relationship between social and spatial mobility in the context...

Digital and artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems now shape all phases of inter­national migration - from the pre-screening of applications and profiles to border management and the integration of migrants. States, international organisations, and private providers use digital platforms,...

Globally, climate change is an important driver of mobility. Climate change will increase mobility in Madagascar. Given the climate change forecasts and population growth, it is expected that the number of climate migrants will increase in Madagascar. Currently, there is insufficient data to...

Pendeln erfüllt eine wichtige Funktion beim räumlichen Ausgleich von Arbeitsangebot und Arbeitsnachfrage. Aus Sachsen-Anhalt pendelten im Jahr 2024 über 148.000 sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigte in andere Bundesländer, was 17 Prozent aller Beschäftigten mit Wohnort in...

Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, is the fourth largest city in India and a hub for commerce, culture, and education. This compendium explores how cities can address complex urban mobility challenges using the city of Chennai, India as an example. The compendium showcases Chennai's...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced university students to transition to online learning due to mobility restrictions and campus closures. When in-person teaching resumed, many students had to commute or move closer to campus and adapt to a new learning and social environment. This paper examines how...

Nach der jüngst beschlossenen Novelle des Straßenverkehrsgesetzes können unabhängig vom Bestehen einer Gefahrenlage nun auch der Klima- und Umweltschutz, die Gesundheit und die städtebauliche Entwicklung als Ziele für verkehrspolitische Maßnahmen geltend gemacht werden. Das ist ein von...

This study reveals that, over the past six decades, development towns have improved their socio-economic status both in terms of absolute mobility (compared to their past position) and relative mobility (progressing at a faster rate than other Jewish cities and towns). Between 1961 and 2019,...

Die Einführung von Politikinstrumenten zur Dekarbonisierung der Sektoren Gebäude und Mobilität bringt abhängig von bestimmten (sozioökonomischen) Bedingungen unterschiedliche Effekte für verschiedene Haushaltsgruppen mit sich. Die (vermeintliche) Regressivität von (primär preisbasierten)...

Temporary migration, return and onward migration have reached high levels in Germany. Between 2014 and 2023, the average emigration rate among foreign nationals ranged from 6 to 11 percent, depending on the data source. At the same time, Germany requires a net annual immigration of around...

Die urbane Mobilität befindet sich in einem fundamentalen Wandel. Digitalisierung, Klimaziele und neue Nutzerpräferenzen treiben die Entwicklung integrierter, datengestützter Mobilitätsangebote voran - von Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) über autonome Flotten bis hin zu smarter...

Background: This paper proposes a conceptual framework for a multifunctional mobility hub (MMH) that co-locates shared e-mobility services, urban logistics, and charging/storage infrastructure within a single site. Aimed at high-density European cities, the MMH model addresses current gaps in...

Mit der Ausdünnung des Versorgungsnetzes haben sich die Organisation des Lebensmitteleinkaufs und die Bewertungvon Erreichbarkeiten verändert. Bei einer Vielfalt an Faktoren,die Einkaufsverhalten, Präferenzen und Wertungen bedingen,stellt sich die Frage nach einer Typisierung der...

This paper examines the effect of the Brexit process on international student migration from the European Union (EU) to the United Kingdom (UK). Using administrative data on higher education students in the UK, we employ a dynamic and a synthetic difference-in-differences estimator to compare EU...

This paper examines the evolution and determinants of skill-specific internal mobility among Italian citizens by urban-rural origin. Using administrative data from the Registry of Transfer of Residence (ADELE), which records the universe of skill-specific bilateral moves across more than 700...

This paper examines the evolution and determinants of skill-specific internal mobility among Italian citizens by urban-rural origin. Using administrative data from the Registry of Transfer of Residence (ADELE), which records the universe of skill-specific bilateral moves across more than 700...

Der aktuelle Vorschlag der EU-Kommission, den Verkauf von Fahrzeugen ohne gültige Hauptuntersuchung zu untersagen, zielt auf Umwelt- und Sicherheitsziele - verfehlt dabei jedoch zentrale ökonomische und politökonomische Realitäten. Der vorliegende Policy Impuls zeigt auf, wie die Maßnahme...

This final report was prepared within the framework of the European Commission request MOVE/2022/OP/0008 - Sustainable rural mobility for resilience in support of ecotourism. The European Commission Communication on a Long-term vision for the EU's rural areas outlines strategies to unlock rural...

EIT Urban Mobility is a knowledge and innovation community established by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2019. The EIT is Europe's largest innovation ecosystem, offering education, innovation and business creation services to solve global challenges. EIT Urban...

Health care systems rely on geographical boundaries that secure financial stability and adequate planning. Quality differences across regions often arise for efficiency reasons, causing patient flows if mobility is free. In this paper, a theoretical spatial competition model is developed to...

Cross-city patient mobility reflects the geographic mismatch in medical resources, posing significant challenges for healthcare accessibility and equitable resource allocation. However, existing research methods inadequately capture the complex relationships between healthcare supply and demand...

Citizens' activities on social media reflect their movements, which lends itself to capturing human mobility and can take explanatory sequential research in this area a big step forward. This research investigates the triangular pattern that emerges from the 3 phase sides of the human mobility...

We study how labeling of neighborhoods affects the performance and sorting of young residents at the junction of enrolling in high school. Exploiting the release of a much publicized official situation report on carefully delineated troubled neighborhoods in Sweden we estimate the effect of this...