Mitigating the impact of the expected increase in the population, economy and urban footprint in Cities of the South on greenhouse gas emissions: The case of Cape Town

Mistro, Romano Del; Proctor, Viola; Moyo, Hazvinei Tsitsi Tamuka

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.272

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“…Berry et al (2016) find similar patterns between the employees who commuted by train or metro and those with high social class' professionals, managers or directors' working full time in Inner London. Mistro, Proctor, and Moyo (2017) showed that the utility for choosing a job decreases as the distance from home to work increases in Cape Town. Since many jobs in the retail sector are low paid, the workers could be expected to be sensitive to personal costs that are job related, for instance, transportation costs and other inconveniences related to the location (lack of access to public transport or child care and other services).…”

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Intra-urban location of stores and labour turnover in retail

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Håkansson

Lundmark

2019

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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The aim of this paper is to analyse labour turnover in retail firms with stores in different city locations. This case study of a Swedish mid-sized city uses comprehensive longitudinal register data on individuals. In a first step, an unconditional descriptive analysis shows that labour turnover in retail is higher in out-of-town locations, compared to more central locations in the city. In a second step, a generalized linear model (GLM) analysis is conducted where labour turnover in downtown and out-of-town locations are compared. Firm internal and industry factors, as well as employee characteristics, and location-specific factors are controlled for. The results indicate that commuting costs and intra-urban location have no statistically significant effect on labour turnover in retail firms. Instead, firm internal factors, such as human resource management, has a major influence on labour turnover rates. The findings indicate that in particular firms with multiple locations may need to pay extra attention to work conditions across stores in different places in a city, in order to avoid diverging levels of labour mobility. This paper complements previous survey-based studies on labour turnover by using a comprehensive micro-level dataset to analyse revealed rather than stated preferences concerning job-to-job mobility. An elaborated measure of labour turnover is used to analyse differences between shopping areas in different locations within the city. The particular research design used in this paper makes it possible to isolate the effect of intra-organizational conditions by analysing mobility within firms with workplaces in both downtown and out-of-town locations. This is the first comprehensive study of labour turnover and mobility with an intra-urban perspective in the retail sector.

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Intra-urban location of stores and labour turnover in retail

Han

Håkansson

Lundmark

2019

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer R

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“…There are interactions between each pair of these factors. The extreme weather events and the intensities of catastrophic weather have increased, resulting in a more uneven distribution of precipitation (Jiang et al 2008;Mistro et al 2017). Furthermore, many engineering projects are constructed, and some of them have an adverse effect on natural conditions.…”

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confidence: 99%