Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009
impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all …