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Determinants of Individual Commuting in Catalonia, 1986-91: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Quantitative Regional Analysis Research Group, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, artis{at}eco.ub.es,

Javier Romaní

Quantitative Regional Analysis Research Group, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, romani{at}eco.ub.es

Jordi Suriñach

Quantitative Regional Analysis Research Group, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, surinach{at}eco.ub.es

Commuting exists because an important fraction of workers in developed countries do not live close to their workplaces, but at long distances from them, so that they must travel to their jobs and then back home daily. This paper studies commuting in Catalonia (a Spanish region) for the 1986-91 period. We introduce the main facts of commuting in Catalonia by a descriptive analysis using several statistical methods, first on its sectoral side (de-composing the Catalonian economy into 24 sectors), then on its territorial side (dividing Catalonia in 16 homogeneous territorial units called regions) and an analysis of the professional categories. Then, we comment briefly on the theory of residential location, which provides us with the theoretical framework needed for the study of commuting. The last part of the paper consists of an estimation of commuting using a logit model with individual data from the 1991 Spanish Population Census, in order to select the most relevant variables and estimate their effect on commuting.

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