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Investigating the Internal Compromise Between Wife and Husband’s Commute Time Changes in Residential Relocation

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This study investigates how employed members in a household compromise their commute times when deciding about the location of household’s living place. The hypothesis of an internal negotiation between household breadwinners is statistically tested using a longitudinal survey of “Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia” (HILDA). The residential relocation history of dual-worker households is extracted from HILDA and according to the variations in commute time before and after relocation a reciprocal model specification is proposed. The reciprocal model is then transformed to a linear model, and the test of overall significance is conducted to validate the hypothesis. It is found that the household structure and wife’s job type have significant impacts on how breadwinners adjust their commute times in response to their partner’s conditions.

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  1. Research Centre for Integrated Transport and Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Milad Ghasri & Taha Hossein Rashidi

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  1. Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece

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Ghasri, M., Rashidi, T.H. (2019). Investigating the Internal Compromise Between Wife and Husband’s Commute Time Changes in Residential Relocation. In: Briassoulis, H., Kavroudakis, D., Soulakellis, N. (eds) The Practice of Spatial Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89806-3_15

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