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Car Ownership and the Labor Markets of Ethnic Minorites [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 We show how initial wealth differences between low-skilled minorities and white workers can generate differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against ethnic minorities or exogenous differences in distance to jobs. Because of the initial wealth difference, minorities cannot afford to buy a
Gautier, Pieter, Zenou, Yves
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Modeling and Forecasting Car Ownership Based on Socio-Economic and Demographic Indicators in Turkey
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2018 Since car ownership is an important determinant to analyze car travel behavior especially in developing countries, this paper deals with modeling and forecasting car ownership in Turkey based on socio-economic and demographic indicators such as Gross ...
Huseyin Ceylan, Ozgur Baskan, Cenk Ozan
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Car Ownership and Welfare-to-Work [PDF]
, 2001 This study examines the role of car ownership in facilitating employment among recipients under the current welfare-to-work law. Because of a potential problem with simultaneity, the analysis uses an instrumental variable constructed from insurance premiums and population density for car ownership.
Ong, Paul M.
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Spatial Analysis of Dog Ownership and Car Use in the UK
Findings, 2021 Walking the dog, and other dog-related practices, have been suggested to be particularly car-dependent. Secondary data analysis presented finds associations between the high energy use practices of car travel and dog ownership.
Ian Philips +2 more
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Exploring Car-Ownership and Declining Carlessness in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Findings, 2023 This paper examines changes in car-ownership levels before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. In contrast to the two years before the pandemic, the propensity of households to be carless decreased for all households considered, as well as for low-
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2016 In this paper data from 230 households observed in ten different occasions (waves) from 1989 to 2002 in the Puget Sound region are used to explore relationships among number of cars owned, number of trips driving alone, and number of trips sharing cars ...
Elizabeth McBride +4 more
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Car access and travel behaviour among men and women in car deficient households with children
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Household car ownership does not necessarily reflect the access to use car, especially if there are more licenced household members than cars in the household.
Hanne Tiikkaja, Heikki Liimatainen
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Life events, poverty, and car ownership in the United States: A mobility biography approach
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019 What causes families to buy or give up a car in the U.S.? Following the mobility biography approach, we use a nationally representative panel data set, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), to examine the role of life events and changes in the built
Nicholas J. Klein, Michael J. Smart
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Generational Differences in Household Car Ownership
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2021 The stagnation of car demand had been observed in many countries. A similar phenomenon had emerged in Taiwan. From the perspective of socio-demographic characteristics, this study employs quantile regression for count data to investigate generational ...
Wen-Hsiu Huang, Ming-Che Chao
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Comparison of car ownership models [PDF]
Transport Reviews, 2004 Car ownership models found in the academic literature (with a focus on the recent literature and on models developed for transport planning) are classified into a number of model types. The different model types are compared on a number of criteria: inclusion of demand and supply side of the car market, level of aggregation, dynamic or static model ...
GERARD DE JONG +4 more
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