Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024
An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job … changes. We study the effect of changes in these subsidies on a worker’s position in the wage distribution. Increases in the … generosity of commuting subsidies induce workers to switch to higher-paying jobs with longer commutes. Although increases in …