Print Email Facebook Twitter Working from Home and Commuting Title Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations Author de Vos, D.W. (TU Delft Urban Studies) van Ham, M. (TU Delft Urban Studies; University of St Andrews; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)) Meijers, E.J. (TU Delft Urban Studies) Date 2019-08 Abstract Teleworking may increase the willingness to accept a longer commute. This paper presents new evidence of the effect of teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger effects compared to studies that use older data. Between 2008 and 2018 however, the effect was remarkably stable: workers that started teleworking increased their commutes by 12 percent on average. We analyse heterogeneity in the effect of teleworking on commuting acrossdifferent levels of urbanization and across occupations. This study stresses the effects of teleworking on the geographical scale of labour markets, and provides important inputs for policymakers that aim to promote teleworking. Subject telecommutingcommuting timeinformation technologyfixed effects To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88c9e6c9-e841-46e2-89ce-842fb6f37870 Publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn Series IZA Discussion Paper No. 12578 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type working paper Rights © 2019 D.W. de Vos, M. van Ham, E.J. Meijers Files PDF dp12578.pdf 812.4 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:88c9e6c9-e841-46e2-89ce-842fb6f37870/datastream/OBJ/view