The Spatial Decay in Commuting Probabilities: Employment Potential vs. Commuting Gravity

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland

SERC Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We show that an employment potential capitalisation model, which establishes a spatial relationship between the price of land and the spatial distribution of employment through a transport matrix, produces estimates of the spatial decay in bilateral commuting probabilities that are very close to the decay observed in commuting data.

Keywords: Accessibility; commuting; employment; gravity; potential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 R28 R38 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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Journal Article: The spatial decay in commuting probabilities: Employment potential vs. commuting gravity (2016)
Working Paper: The spatial decay in commuting probabilities: employment potential vs. commuting gravity (2015)
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