Reimbursement of commuting costs by employers has attracted little attention from economists. We develop a theoretical … frictions and show that partial reimbursement of commuting cost will in general be an element of the recruitment policy. The … alternative explanation that stresses the role of tax incentives is unlikely to provide a full explanation of the commuting costs …

An emerging quantitative spatial economics literature models commuting interactions by a gravity equation that is … the appropriateness of the commuting model from a theoretical as well as an empirical point of view. We show that … changes in commuting flows in response to a change in the attractiveness of choice alternatives provides a more informative …