Grandes mobilités et accès à l’emploi

Emmanuel Ravalet, Yann Dubois and Vincent Kaufmann

Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, 2014, vol. LIII, issue 3, 57-76

Abstract: High mobility for job-reason is a way for people to articulate professional and personal requirements. It concerns long-duration commuting, multi-residence and frequent trips for job reasons. When employment becomes scarcer, is it a luxury to avoid these kinds of mobility ? We propose to address this question in this article. We rely on a longitudinal (2007, 2011) and European (Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland) quantitative database. The characterization of territories is proposed on the basis of urbanity degrees, accessibility to transport infrastructure and 2007 and 2011 unemployment rates. It first appears that high mobile people live as well in the most urbanized areas than in suburban and rural areas. The individual approach on motility (a mobility potential) reveals a decoupling between the ability to perform these mobilities and the will to achieve them. Thus, we find people who can a little (skills and limited access) but want a lot (high declared willingness to mobility). In their case, mobility is essential to avoid unemployment. Spain offers an interesting case study in this regard. High mobility is becoming in this country a standard which is difficult to escape from. JEL : R41, J64, J24

Keywords: mobility; work; motility; commuting; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J64 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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