Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184643 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CEPIE Working Paper No. 04/18
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Center of Public and International Economics (CEPIE), Dresden
Abstract: 
Transportation economists apply different labor supply models when studying anti-congestion policy: (i) endogenous working hours; (ii) endogenous workdays but given daily working hours; (iii) labor supply as a residual. We study whether the outcome of anti-congestion policies that change the relative cost of labor supply margins, and, thus, may affect decisions on working hours and working days, is robust against the model applied. In particular, we focus on welfare implications in the presence of other taxes when there is a congestion externality. We find surprisingly strong differences in quantity and sign. Further, we develop a clear recommendation for future research on issues that include decisions on commuting trips. Researchers shall apply both a model of endogenous working hours that provides an upper limit and a model of endogenous workdays that provide a lower limit of results for welfare changes, optimal policies and two optimal tax components (Pigouvian and Ramsey terms).
Subjects: 
Public Economics
Tax Design
Time Allocation
Labor Supply
Pigouvian Tax
Urban Economics
CGE
Spatial Modeling
Transportation
Transportation Economics
Transport Policy
Congestion
JEL: 
H2
H3
J2
R1
R4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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