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Do workers negative self-select when they commute? Evidence for the Chilean case of long-distance commuting

Authors: Viviana Carriel, Marcelo Lufin, Manuel Pérez-Trujillo

Published in: The Annals of Regional Science | Issue 1/2022

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Abstract

Long-distance commuting (LDC) as a strategy of labor factor mobility has become relevant in recent decades, mainly in those economies characterized by a significant relative weight of extractive activities. The phenomenon is key to understanding the current structure and dynamics of these labor markets, although little is known about self-selection in LDC. This document addresses this knowledge gap by analyzing the case of Chile using functional areas. Chile is a country where LDC has become the principal strategy of labor mobility and is closely linked to the mining and construction sectors. The results obtained show a pattern of negative self-selection, meaning that it is the least qualified who have the highest probability of commuting between functional areas. Commuting could therefore be more than just a mechanism for accessing qualified labor, allowing less qualified individuals access job opportunities when the labor market where they come from is more qualified.
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Footnotes
1
LDC considers those workers that are provided food and housing and are therefore able to remain in their place of work for some period of time (Storey and Shrimpton, 1986), instead of returning to their place of residence on a daily basis.
 
2
In the USA, between 2006 and 2010 about 41% of commuters belonged to the administration sector and 25% were employed in the business sector; 9% belonged to the primary and construction sectors (Rapino and Fields, 2013).
 
3
The Antofagasta Region alone is responsible for approximately 16% of the global copper production and is where the Chuquicamata mine (the largest open pit copper mine by excavated volume in the world) is located.
 
4
Data from the Chilean National Employment Survey.
 
5
Occupations were established in accordance with the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 08). These are: armed forces; members of the executive branch and legislative bodies; professionals, scientists and intellectuals; mid-level professional technicians; office employees; service workers and shop vendors; farmers and skilled agricultural and fishing workers; officers, operatives and artisans of mechanical arts and others; plant and machine operators and assemblers; and, unskilled workers.
 
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Metadata
Title
Do workers negative self-select when they commute? Evidence for the Chilean case of long-distance commuting
Authors
Viviana Carriel
Marcelo Lufin
Manuel Pérez-Trujillo
Publication date
03-03-2022
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
The Annals of Regional Science / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0570-1864
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0592
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01121-1

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