The university workers’ willingness to pay for commuting

Giovanni Russo (), Jos van Ommeren () and Piet Rietveld

Transportation, 2012, vol. 39, issue 6, 1132 pages

Abstract: Using a dynamic approach, employing data on job mobility, we demonstrate that university workers’ marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting distance is about €0.25 per kilometre travelled. This corresponds to a marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting time of about 75 % of the net average hourly wage. For females, the willingness to pay is substantially higher than for males. It is also substantially higher for workers that work few hours per day, as predicted by theory. Copyright The Author(s) 2012

Keywords: University; Workers; Commute; Willingness to pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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