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Title: Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: 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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Authors: Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Velilla, Jorge

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Publication Number: 9425

Institution: IZA

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Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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