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来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.69,P.25-37

语言

英文

关键字

Household production; Gender economics; Time allocation and labour supply; Commuting time; HOME PRODUCTION; SPATIAL MISMATCH; WORK; ALLOCATION; LEISURE; INCOME; TRAVEL

作者单位

[Carta, Francesca] Bank Italy, Directorate Gen Econ Stat & Res, Dondena, Italy. [De Philippis, Marta] Bank Italy, fRDB, Directorate Gen Econ Stat & Res, Dondena, Italy. Carta, F (reprint author), Bank Italy, Directorate Gen Econ Stat & Res, Dondena, Italy. E-Mail: francesca.carta@bancaditalia.it

摘要

This paper explores the effects of husbands' commuting time on wives' employment and family time allocation. We develop a unitary family model, and we show that when market services are imperfect substitutes of home produced goods, a longer husband's commuting time might decrease his wife's employment and increase his own working hours. We estimate these effects using employer-induced changes in home-to-work distances. We find that a 1% increase in the husband's commuting distance reduces his wife's employment probability by 0.016 percentage points and has a slight positive effect on his own working hours. The effects are stronger for couples with children and for highly educated husbands.