Job and housing tenure and the journey to work

David Levinson

The Annals of Regional Science, 1997, vol. 31, issue 4, 471 pages

Abstract: Tenure at jobs and houses, along with commuting patterns between home and work, were studied for residents of metropolitan Washington. Two alternative potential outcomes were considered: (1) because moving or switching jobs can be used as an opportunity to reduce commuting duration in an era of rising congestion, those who recently moved or changed jobs should have shorter than average commutes; and (2) because most new residential construction is at the urban fringe, an area of longer commutes, those who recently moved to new homes should have longer commutes. Evaluation of the effect of commuting duration on job and housing tenure suggests that those who move, on average, maintain commute duration rather than having a major increase or decrease. This corroborates the idea that there are offsetting factors, where increases in commute lengths due to suburbanizing residences are counteracted by the correlated process of suburbanizing jobs.

Date: 1997-09-26
Note: Received: June 1995 / Accepted in revised form: May 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00168/papers/7031004/70310451.pdf (application/pdf)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/0016 ... 31004/70310451.ps.gz (application/postscript)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted

Related works:
Working Paper: Job and Housing Tenure and the Journey to Work (1997)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:anresc:v:31:y:1997:i:4:p:451-471

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://link.springer.com/journal/168

Access Statistics for this article

The Annals of Regional Science is currently edited by Martin Andersson, E. Kim and Janet E. Kohlhase

More articles in The Annals of Regional Science from Springer, Western Regional Science Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().