We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the …-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show that highway access influences local employment outcomes in peripheral municipalities … within 10 km road distance. Improved accessibility decreases employment by 9%. These effects are driven by reduced commuter …

population density to create a proxy for “accessibility”, i.e. access to employment and consumption opportunities. Using a large … results suggest that the most productive firms benefited in terms of employment, output, and productivity, as accessibility … the exception of service sectors where employment increased in response to improved local accessibility and declined for …