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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: State-of-the-Art; 1. Introduction; Relevance of the Subject; Commuting Behaviour: Facts and Figures; Outline of this Study; Notes; 2. A Review of Commuting, Job Mobility and Residential Mobility Research; Introduction; Commuting Behaviour: Theoretical Models; Empirical Commuting Research; Moving Behaviour; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Theory; 3 Job Mobility, Residential Mobility and Commuting: Search Theory; Introduction; A Search Framework; Job and Residence Search: The Optimal Strategy |
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The Optimal StrategyComparative Statics; Do Workers First Move Job, and Then Move Residence?; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Moving Behaviour of Two-Earner Households; Introduction; The Search Model; Comparative Statics; Divorce; A Comparison of Behaviour of Two-Earners and Single Wage-Earner Households; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix 4.1 The Effect of z3 on the Distribution of z1 and z2; 5. Commuting: In Search of Jobs and Residences; Introduction; The Search Model; Properties of the Search Model; Comparative Statics; Acceptance Behaviour; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix 5.1 Simulations |
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Part III: Empirical Application of Moving Behaviour and Commuting6. Are Job-to-Job Mobility, Residential Mobility and Commuting Related?; Introduction; The Dependence Between Job and Residential Mobility; The Specification of the Loglikelihood for Duration and Discrete Choice Panel Observations; Empirical Application; Stronger Assumptions About Causality: Job Moves Trigger Residential Moves; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Appendix 6.1 Means of variables of employed individuals; 7. Willingness to Pay for Commuting; Introduction; The Marginal Willingness to Pay for Commuting; Estimation |
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An Empirical ApplicationConclusion; Notes; 8. Job Moving Behaviour: Impacts of Employed Spouses; Introduction; The Data and the Explanatory Variables; The Empirical Results; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix 8.1 Variance of estimates; 9. Job Moving Behaviour: Two-Earner Households Revisited; Introduction; Empirical Investigation; Conclusion; Part IV: Empirical Applications of Commuting and on-the-Job Search Behaviour; 10. The Determinants of Commuting Distance; Introduction; Empirical Model; Empirical Results; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix 10.1; Appendix 10.2 |
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11. On-The-Job Search: The Importance of Commuting TimeIntroduction; Search Theory; The Data and the Statistical Model; Conclusion; Part V: Summary and Conclusions; 12. Summary and Implications for Policy; Summary; Implications for Policy; Notes; Bibliography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351752138 |
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1351752138 |
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9781315191454 |
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1315191458 |
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