Surface roughness has a huge impact on many important phenomena. The most important
property of rough surfaces is the surface roughness power spectrum C (q). We present …

Excess commuting is the additional journey‐to‐work travel represented by the difference
between the actual average commute and the smallest possible average commute, given …

We investigate the wage, employment, and reallocation effects of the introduction of a
nationwide minimum wage in Germany that affected 15% of all employees. Based on …

We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using
French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women …

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender
gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in …

Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question, we analyze the
wages of public school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts …

'The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational
enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and …

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated
with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal university …

It is increasingly recognized that labor markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that
there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter …