Looking for incentives to explain Long Distance Commuting

Dusan Paredes and Iván Jamett Sasonov ()
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Iván Jamett Sasonov: IDEAR - Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte - Chile

No 33, Documentos de Trabajo en Economia y Ciencia Regional from Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper suggests that long distance commuters obtain a wage compensation of 10% on average. With respect to the length of the trip, wages increase 5.7% per commuted hour. Regions with the highest influx of commuters are simultaneously those with higher wage compensations. This research suggests that the labor market alone does not seem to present evidence which foreshadows a reduction in LDC flows Moreover, this paper display how the labor market offers workers higher incentives in order to maintain the flow of long distance commuting.

Keywords: Long Distance Commuting; Coarsened Exact Marching; wage compensation; wage distance gradient. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2013-01, Revised 2013-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-tre and nep-ure
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