Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine the commuting behaviour of self-employed workers in Spain as well as its relationship with satisfaction with jobs and housing. According to our results although conventional estimations indicate that commuting trips are shorter among the self-employed, the differences with employees vanish when the potential endogeneity of self-employment is controlled for. We also show that the job and housing satisfaction levels of the self-employed are less sensitive to commuting than those of employees, and that in fact no significant effect is observed for relevant segments of the former group, what gives partial support to the theoretical model that we propose where imperfect information problems affect the employees but not the self-employed.
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12469
Institution: University of Alicante
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W2954162131