Urban growth controls and intercity commuting

Effects of Urban Growth Controls on Intercity Commuting

“…A simplified version of Ogura's (2005) model is presented next. Because the objective of this paper is to test whether UGC affect IC, the model presented here focuses on this relationship.…”

“…Because population growth is diverted from controlled to uncontrolled cities, Ogura (2005) suggests that theoretically UGC could induce workers to live in an uncontrolled city but to work in the controlled one. Vermeulen and Rouwendal (2008) also consider intercity commuting (IC) in a model of UGC, but with the restricting assumption that all jobs in the region are located in the central city, so that UGC there necessarily leads to IC.…”

“…The remainder of this paper is organised as follows. The next section discusses Ogura's (2005) model of how UGC might affect IC. Section 3 presents an empirical analysis of this issue based on the estimation of IC flows.…”

“…Concluding remarks are presented in section 4. Ogura (2005) presents a theoretical analysis of the relationship between UGC adoption and IC of workers. On one hand, his model suggests that the adoption of UGC depends on how price elastic the local labour supply is, which is affected by how easily commuting from other places can occur.…”

A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

“…4 Though deliberately parsimonious, this set-up provides a non-trivial theory of 3 There is a literature at the interface of urban economics and the new economic geography which focusses on commuting -i.e., the separation of the location of production and consumption/residenceswithin cities (e.g., Krugman and Livas Elizondo, 1995;Tabuchi, 1998;Murata and Thisse, 2005;Tabuchi and Thisse, 2005). One paper on intercity commuting that we are aware of is Ogura (2005), but there is no agglomeration force in his model. 4 This assumption is the natural one when production and residences are separated through capital mobility.…”