Do commuting subsidies increase commuting distances? Evidence from a Regression Kink Design

Paetzold, Jörg

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.02.004

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“…Note also that the choice of the work location is likely endogenouse.g. Paetzold (2019) shows that commuting subsidies increase the length of commute -, which would imply an endogeneity problem that can perhaps best be solved by developing a simultaneous model for residential and location choice, which is outside the scope of the present paper. 18 The majority of bike-and-ride users travel up to 3 km to a public transport stop (Martens, 2004).…”

Section: Household Heterogeneity and Amenitiesmentioning

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Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area

Mulalic

Rouwendal

2020

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Section: Household Heterogeneity and Amenitiesmentioning

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Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area

Mulalic

Rouwendal

2020

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…In particular, male commuters benefit from this tax deduction (the share of men receiving the subsidy is 0.46, whereas the share of women is 0.40). This kind of subsidy is likely inefficient and have been shown to increase commuting distances (Paetzold, 2019). Our empirical findings indicate that removing this commuting subsidy (maybe only for males) is unlikely to reduce the gender wage gap, as the gender wage gap induced by commuting is predominantly due to the lower compensation for commuting received by women with children rather than that these women commute much less.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Commuting, Children and the Gender Wage Gap

Borghorst

Mulalic²,

Ommeren

2021

SSRN Journal

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It has been documented that the gender pay gap strongly increases after the birth of the first child. We focus on 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 overall gender pay gap is due to gender differences related to compensation for commuting when having children. Third, women who get a child are much more likely to leave their job when they have a long commute, which is not true for men.Using information on job moving through the lens of a dynamic search model, these results imply that the marginal cost of commuting increases substantially for women with a child. For female workers with a child, a one standard deviation increase in commuting distance induces costs equivalent to about 10% of their wage, whereas for all other workers these costs are equivalent to only 3-4% of their wages.

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“…Except for cash benefits and skill training, measures to reduce job search frictions would also assist unemployed workers. Future research could examine whether commuting subsidies, online job boards, or working-from-home options facilitate the return to employment by displaced workers, and whether they accelerate the recovery from job loss (Franklin, 2018;Paetzold, 2019;G ürtzgen et al, 2021). It would also be valuable to study how job search frictions impact the effectiveness of employment assistance programs.…”

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Beyond Lost Earnings: The Long-Term Impact of Job Displacement on Workers’ Commuting Behavior

Duan

Jost

2022

SSRN Journal

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Do commuting subsidies increase commuting distances? Evidence from a Regression Kink Design

Cited by 16 publications

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Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area

Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area

Commuting, Children and the Gender Wage Gap

Beyond Lost Earnings: The Long-Term Impact of Job Displacement on Workers’ Commuting Behavior

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