Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting
The distance a person is willing to commute has a direct influence on her/his employment opportunities and wage level. It raises a lot of interesting questions, especially whether intra-urban commuting (due to a well-developed transport infrastructure, geographical concentration of job opportunities...
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| description | The distance a person is willing to commute has a direct influence on her/his employment opportunities and wage level. It raises a lot of interesting questions, especially whether intra-urban commuting (due to a well-developed transport infrastructure, geographical concentration of job opportunities, etc.) is connected with any wage returns, and how they differ in comparison with those of inter-urban commuting. This article uses three data-sets at national (N1 = 1,884; N2 = 933) and local (N3 = 3,193) levels from the Czech Republic, and different approximations of commuting in order to contribute to the discussion. It provides robust evidence on positive wage returns to both inter-urban and intra-urban commuting, comparable with Western countries. The differences between large national and limited urban labour markets are reflected in functional form: wage returns are linear for intra-urban and non-linear for inter-urban commuting. The article also explores the validity of different measures of commuting time and distance provided by the on-line application Mapy.cz, and suggests that it represents a suitable approximation in the case of missing or limited data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-28fd411dc9854bf79b9974b428eb648a2022-12-21T21:26:45ZengSciendoMoravian Geographical Reports1210-88122020-06-0128211212310.2478/mgr-2020-0009mgr-2020-0009Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commutingVontroba Jakub0Balcar Jiří1Šimek Milan2Faculty of Economics, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech RepublicFaculty of Economics, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech RepublicFaculty of Economics, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech RepublicThe distance a person is willing to commute has a direct influence on her/his employment opportunities and wage level. It raises a lot of interesting questions, especially whether intra-urban commuting (due to a well-developed transport infrastructure, geographical concentration of job opportunities, etc.) is connected with any wage returns, and how they differ in comparison with those of inter-urban commuting. This article uses three data-sets at national (N1 = 1,884; N2 = 933) and local (N3 = 3,193) levels from the Czech Republic, and different approximations of commuting in order to contribute to the discussion. It provides robust evidence on positive wage returns to both inter-urban and intra-urban commuting, comparable with Western countries. The differences between large national and limited urban labour markets are reflected in functional form: wage returns are linear for intra-urban and non-linear for inter-urban commuting. The article also explores the validity of different measures of commuting time and distance provided by the on-line application Mapy.cz, and suggests that it represents a suitable approximation in the case of missing or limited data.https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0009commutingwage returnsjob searchurban environmenttransport infrastructureczech republic |
| spellingShingle | Vontroba Jakub Balcar Jiří Šimek Milan Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting Moravian Geographical Reports commuting wage returns job search urban environment transport infrastructure czech republic |
| title | Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting |
| title_full | Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting |
| title_fullStr | Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting |
| title_full_unstemmed | Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting |
| title_short | Commuting pays off: Evidence on wage returns to inter-urban and intra-urban commuting |
| title_sort | commuting pays off evidence on wage returns to inter urban and intra urban commuting |
| topic | commuting wage returns job search urban environment transport infrastructure czech republic |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0009 |
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