An assessment of the impact of the disutility from commuting time of job searchers on the labour market in the National Capital Region

This study structurally analyzes the impact of disutility from commuting time of job searchers on the labor market in the National Capital Region during the years 1995-1997. This also determines the factors that affect the disutility from commuting time of job searchers and the optimal strategy they employ faced with a certain level of disutility. To further facilitate this study, a job search model was adapted from the empirical work of Gerard Van Den Berg and Cees Gorter. Essential variables are included like person-specific characteristics, household specific characteristics and environment related features. Other theoretical and empirical contributions on job search behavior are incorporated to serve as framework and basis of this study. Econometrics is used to regress the model, specifically, ordinary least squares (OLS) is utilized