This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different … health behavior are barely affected by commuting time, subjective health measures are clearly lower for people who commute … longer. A longer commuting time is, moreover, related to more visits to the general practitioner. Effects turn out to be more …

This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between … husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … differences in commuting patterns. A conditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates that short commutes are strongly …

Evidence suggests that a considerable proportion of peak period trips aremade for purposes other than commuting to or … suggests that while, in theabsence of congestion tolls, commuting subsidies are welfare decreasing, anoptimal pricing scheme …

We examine the causal effect of commuting distance on workers' wages in a quasi-natural experiments setting using …' relocations. For the range of commuting distances where income tax reductions associated with commuting do not apply, one … kilometre increase in commuting distance induces a wage increase of about 0.42%, suggesting an hourly compensation of about half …

only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is … commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …