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Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees
In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i.e., excess commuting). We first formulate a microeconomic framework for commuting by modeling the location of individuals in urban cores surrounded by rings. Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2013, our empirical results show that employees spend twelve more minutes per day, or forty percent of the average commuting time, compared to their self-employed counterparts. This is consistent with our "diana" model, in that location is an important factor.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9425
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Household Analysis: General
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- Subject
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excess commuting
urban cores
American Time Use Survey
self-employed workers
employees
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
Molina, José Alberto
Velilla, Jorge
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio
- Molina, José Alberto
- Velilla, Jorge
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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