Sentence examples for commuting burden from inspiring English sources
The results of this analysis show that increasing inequality in the commuting burden largely results from existing institutional discrimination against migrants, especially highly-skilled migrants.
Our study reveals a "back to Danwei house" movement through which local households negotiate the growing commuting burden with the pursuit of quality of life.
Today, some three-quarters of all jobs are located outside the city center, and lower-skilled workers bear the heaviest commuting burden as their jobs have moved to outer urban rings that often lack access to public transportation.
Based on these findings, we argue that increasing social inequality in the commuting burden may continue to worsen unless institutional discrimination against disadvantaged groups is removed in the process of China's economic transition.
Beijing's Danwei, Hukou and BGC systems, as well as the city's housing distribution system, create serious institutional barriers to maintaining Beijing's jobs-housing balance, causing extra commuting burdens for highly-skilled migrants.
"Opening an office in the Valley makes it easy for South Bay residents to work at Square by relieving the burden of commuting to San Francisco," said director of talent Bryan Power in a press release.
But for most passengers it is hardly discretionary spending: not least for commuters priced out of cities by housing costs, who now find themselves commuting on jammed trains at peak hours and bearing an ever more onerous financial burden.
Urban motorists, particularly company-car drivers commuting to work in busy city centres, pay too little, relative to the burden they place on crowded roads.
The union argues that the plan would do little to ease the burden on workers who have to make long and expensive trips to localities around the region, often commuting to and from job centers in the District and elsewhere.
