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Sofia F Franco - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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employer paid parking mode choice and Suburbanization
2017Co-Authors: Jan K Brueckner, Sofia F FrancoAbstract:This paper constructs a theoretical model that facilitates analysis of the effects of employer-paid parking on mode choice, road investment and Suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center and suburbs, which are connected by a congested road and a public-transit line. Each road commuter requires an allotment of CBD land for parking, and because the central zone’s area is fixed, parking land reduces the amount available for central residences and CBD production. The model characterizes optimal resource allocation from the perspective of a social planner. The planning solution can be decentralized, which requires employee- rather than employer-paid parking, congestion tolls, and a tax (subsidy) to offset the road capacity deficit (surplus). The analysis then considers the effect of switching to employer-paid parking, with the burden of parking costs shifting from road users to employers, thus reducing the wage for all workers. This switch inefficiently increases road usage and capacity investment, while spurring an inefficient increase in Suburbanization.
Erick Guerra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The geography of car ownership in Mexico City: a joint model of households’ residential location and car ownership decisions
2015Co-Authors: Erick GuerraAbstract:Suburbanization and car-ownership have increased rapidly in developing-world cities over the past half-century. This study examines the relationship between income, car ownership, and Suburbanization across geographies and households in metropolitan Mexico City. Neither car-ownership trends by geography nor a mixed logit model of 43,000 households’ joint car-ownership and residential-location decisions suggest that car ownership and Suburbanization are moving hand-in-hand. Instead, wealthier households tend to live in central locations and own and drive cars, while poorer households tend to live further from the urban center and rely more heavily on transit. If a random household’s income doubles, that household is around 44% more likely to get an additional car and 29% more likely to live in the urban center. Given the sticky nature of housing supply and the current model of peripheral housing production, aggregate responses to higher income are more difficult to predict, as they will almost certainly be offset by higher prices. Nevertheless, the findings suggest that higher income and car ownership do not tend to encourage a move to larger houses on larger suburban lots in Mexico City.
Jan K Brueckner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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employer paid parking mode choice and Suburbanization
2017Co-Authors: Jan K Brueckner, Sofia F FrancoAbstract:This paper constructs a theoretical model that facilitates analysis of the effects of employer-paid parking on mode choice, road investment and Suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center and suburbs, which are connected by a congested road and a public-transit line. Each road commuter requires an allotment of CBD land for parking, and because the central zone’s area is fixed, parking land reduces the amount available for central residences and CBD production. The model characterizes optimal resource allocation from the perspective of a social planner. The planning solution can be decentralized, which requires employee- rather than employer-paid parking, congestion tolls, and a tax (subsidy) to offset the road capacity deficit (surplus). The analysis then considers the effect of switching to employer-paid parking, with the burden of parking costs shifting from road users to employers, thus reducing the wage for all workers. This switch inefficiently increases road usage and capacity investment, while spurring an inefficient increase in Suburbanization.
Conrad Miller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when work moves job Suburbanization and black employment
2018Co-Authors: Conrad MillerAbstract:I provide novel evidence that job Suburbanization has been an important cause of the decline in black employment since 1970, exploiting variation across US local labor markets. I rst present four stylized facts suggesting that any relationship between the two is driven by spatial frictions and not changes in labor demand or supply. I show that: (1) job Suburbanization is not associated with signicant changes in the types of work performed; (2) Suburbanization is driven by the location decisions of entrant rms rather than the spatial distribution of exiting rms; (3) these entrants locate in areas where blacks are ex-ante less likely to work than whites; (4) despite these shifts in the location of rms, black workers remain equally less likely to work in these suburban areas. I then show that job Suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black (relative) employment rates. Instrumenting for Suburbanization using central city intersections with the interstate highway system yields similar estimates, corroborating a causal interpretation. Job Suburbanization can explain the majority of the relative decline in black male employment over this period.
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when work moves job Suburbanization and black employment
2018Co-Authors: Conrad MillerAbstract:This paper presents evidence that job Suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000. I document that, conditional on detailed job characteristics, blacks are less likely than whites to work in suburban establishments, and this spatial segregation is stable over time despite widespread decentralization of population and jobs. This stable segregation suggests job Suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation across metropolitan areas, I find that job Suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal interpretation.
Steven Farber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Suburbanization of transport poverty
2021Co-Authors: Jeff Allen, Steven FarberAbstract:Many cities have undergone spatial redistributions of low-income populations from central to suburban neighborhoods over the past several decades. A potential negative impact of these trends is tha...
