Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86196 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 07-044/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Reimbursement of commuting costs by employers has attracted little attention from economists. We develop a theoretical model of a monopsonistic employer who determines an optimal recruitment policy in a spatial labour market with search frictions and show that partial reimbursement of commuting cost will in general be an element of the recruitment policy. The empirical evidence we offer is consistent with the interpretation of reimbursement as the result of monopsonistic behaviour. The alternative explanation that stresses the role of tax incentives is unlikely to provide a full explanation of the commuting costs reimbursement.
Subjects: 
monopsonistic labour markets
commuting
spatial labour market analysis
JEL: 
J33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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