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Abstract
In this study, I investigate the commuting behavior of workers in Germany. Using comprehensive geo-referenced administrative employee and firm data, I can calculate the exact commuting time and the distance between workers' residence and workplace locations. Based on a behavioral economic approach (Simonson and Tveresky in J Mark Res 29:281-295, 1992), I show that individual commuting decisions are influenced by wages and individual heterogeneity as well as depending on the context individuals observed in the past. In particular, my results show that previously observed commutes have an impact on subsequent commuting behavior: workers choose longer commuting times in the region they recently moved to when the average commute in the region they left was longer. The results indicate that while selectivity and sorting do not influence the effect of the context, the inclusion of individual fixed effects is crucial.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00168-023-01223-4.
在这项研究中，我调查了德国工人的通勤行为。使用全面的地理参考行政员工和公司数据，我可以计算出确切的通勤时间以及员工住所和工作地点之间的距离。基于行为经济学方法（Simonson和Tveresky在J Mark Res 29:281-2951992中），我表明个人通勤决策受到工资和个人异质性的影响，也取决于个人过去观察到的背景。特别是，我的研究结果表明，以前观察到的通勤对随后的通勤行为有影响：当他们离开的地区的平均通勤时间更长时，工人在他们最近搬到的地区选择更长的通勤时间。结果表明，虽然选择性和排序不会影响上下文的效果，但包含个体的固定效果是至关重要的。补充信息：在线版本包含补充材料，可访问10.1007/s00168-023-01223-4。
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The Annals of Regional Science presents high-quality research in the interdisciplinary field of regional and urban studies. The journal publishes papers which make a new or substantial contribution to the body of knowledge in which the spatial dimension plays a fundamental role, including regional economics, resource management, location theory, urban and regional planning, transportation and communication, population distribution and environmental quality. The Annals of Regional Science is the official journal of the Western Regional Science Association.
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