Interpreting employee telecommuting adoption: An economics perspective |
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Authors: | Jin-Ru Yen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Shipping & Transportation Management, The National Taiwan Ocean University, No. 2, Peining Rd., Keelung, 202, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Travel demand is derived from activities at the trip destination; therefore, media that have the potential to provide services
previously only supported by transportation will have a chance to be chosen by passengers. The idea of telecommuting is considered
the most promising substitute of work trips and thus a good strategy of transportation demand management. From a microeconomics
perspective, demand for goods or services can be interpreted as a function of prices and generalized income. Therefore, telecommuting
adoption is viewed as a trade-off among the prices of telecommuting itself, substitutes, and complements, as well as generalized
income and situational constrains incurred by the employee. The underlying rationale is interpreted by elasticity analysis
of aggregate telecommuting demand, based on an adoption model, with respect to various decision variable. The results indicate
that the elasticity with respect to the price that the employee may incur in order to telecommute is the largest one, and
the elasticity with respect to the living space at home is the second one. Additionally, all of the elasticities found in
the group of employees currently commuting by private transportation are greater than the corresponding ones found in the
group of transit riders. These findings are expected to have significant implications of transportation policies.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | ordinal-probit model telecommuting |
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