A Rapid Road to Employment?: The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima
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- Scholl, Lynn & Martinez, Daniel & Mitnik, Oscar A. & Oviedo, Daniel & Yanez-Pagans, Patricia, 2018. "A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima," IZA Discussion Papers 12019, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-TRE-2019-04-29 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2019-04-29 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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