Stress That Doesn't Pay : The Commuting Paradox

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People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals? utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-being. Additional empirical analyses do not find institutional explanations of the empirical results that commuters systematically incur losses. We discuss several possibilities of an extended model of human behavior able to explain this ?commuting paradox?.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1278

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
• Thema: location theory ; commuting ; compensating variation ; subjective well-being ; Pendelverkehr ; Lebensqualität ; Standorttheorie ; Kompensationslösung ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stutzer, Alois ; Frey, Bruno S.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20544
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ