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 …

whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …

In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which … conditions the commuting distribution is unimodal which isone of the stylised facts of commuting. It appears that a necessary … commuting density function as we observe it. …

In this paper, we derive a structural model for commuting speed. We presumethat commuting speed is chosen to minimise … commuting costs, which encompass bothmonetary and time costs. At faster speed levels, the monetary costs increase, but the …

different residential locations and therefore, conditional on workplace location, have different commuting patterns. Empirical … instrumental variables to deal with endogenity of household income by observing that commuting may affect wages only when workers …-term effects, and avoid that due to the presence of residential moving costs, few workers immediately change commuting distance by …

to pay for reducing commuting distance is about euro 0.25 per kilometre travelled. This corresponds to a marginal … willingness to pay for reducing commuting time of about 75% of the net average hourly wage. For females, the willingness to pay is …

Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3 − 4 percentage points of the …

-296.<P> In this paper, we derive a structural model for commuting speed. We presume that commuting speed is chosen to … minimise commuting costs, which encompass both monetary and time costs. At faster speed levels, the monetary costs increase …, but the time costs fall. Using data from Great Britain, we demonstrate that the income elasticity of commuting speed is 0 …

' marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting distance is about euro 0.25 per kilometre travelled. This corresponds to a … marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting time of about 75% of the net average hourly wage. For females, the …