This paper explores the effects of husbands' commuting time on their wives' labour market participation and on family … time allocation. We develop a unitary family model of labour supply, which includes commuting times and household … production. In a pure leisure model longer commuting time for husbands increases their wives' labour market participation and …

This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last … three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those … commuting time in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK, with male workers …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …