COMMUTING PATTERNS AND FIRM DECENTRALIZATION

I hypothesize that individuals with greater job and residential mobility will have shorter commutes, given decentralized firm location. Residential and job mobility are further hypothesized to be functions of socio-economic and employment characteristics. The results show sex, income, race, household responsibilities, and job mobility to be important in determining commuting behavior. The monocentric model is based on a separation of the house and work place. The time vs. distance issue is explicitly addressed in this paper by using both measures in the estimations. The results show time to be the superior measure. -from Author