Travel to work and household responsibility: new evidence

T Turner, D Niemeier - Transportation, 1997 - Springer
A persistent empirical finding in the research on travel patterns is that women tend to
engage in shorter work commutes than men. Research evaluating the degree to which this …

Characterizing exurbia

AC Nelson - Journal of Planning Literature, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
Millions of Americans are choosing to live in the exurban countryside-a trend that could
transform the politics, government, and economic structure of the nation. Exurbanization is a …

Family proximity, childcare, and women's labor force attachment

J Compton, RA Pollak - Journal of Urban Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial
positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the …

Is there a quiet revolution in women's travel? Revisiting the gender gap in commuting

R Crane - Journal of the American planning association, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Gender is both an archetypal and adaptive dimension of the urban condition and, thus,
remains a key moving target for planning practitioners and scholars alike. This is especially …

“It's driving her mad”: Gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological health

J Roberts, R Hodgson, P Dolan - Journal of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Commuting is an important component of time use for most working people. We explore the
effects of commuting time on the psychological health of men and women. We use data from …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in commuting time of European workers: A cross-country analysis

JI Giménez-Nadal, JA Molina, J Velilla - Transport Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European
countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in …

Suburban pink collar ghettos: the spatial entrapment of women?

KVL England - Annals of the Association of American …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The restructuring of the US economy has resulted in the expansion and suburbanization of
office employment. One theory is that an attraction of suburban locations is their large supply …

Household structure and gender differences in travel time: spouse/partner presence, parenthood, and breadwinner status

Y Fan - Transportation, 2017 - Springer
Despite having more similar roles at work and home than ever before, US men and women
continue to exhibit different travel behavior. An open question is whether the remaining …

Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities

DA Black, N Kolesnikova, LJ Taylor - Journal of Urban Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper documents a little-noticed feature of US labor markets—very large variation in the
labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in …

Determinants of commuting time and distance for Seoul residents: The impact of family status on the commuting of women

BS Lee, JF McDonald - Urban studies, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper performs multiple regression analysis to identify a large number of determinants
of commuting time and distance for Seoul residents using the 2 per cent public-use sample …