Abstract
Dynamics and local policy in labour commuting Background: In the paper, the influence of the selected parameters, which are population, travel time to work by car, employment rate and average gross earnings, to labour commuting flows in Slovenia is analysed for the period 2000 - 2009. Furthermore, the dynamics of the analysed parameters have been studied to be implemented in the local policy application. Objectives: The main goal of this research has been to study the stickiness and attractiveness of Slovenian municipalities regarding the analysed parameters to support local labour commuting policy. Methods/Approach: The influence of the analysed parameters to the labour commuting flows has been studied in the extended gravity model. The change of the influence of parameters on commuting flows has been studied separately for each year in the analysed period. Additionally, the calculation of the extended gravity model has been performed for the whole analysed period. Results: The results show that the analysed parameters more attracted than dispatched the inter-municipal labour commuting flows in Slovenia in the study period. The results of the study of the dynamics of the analysed parameters have been implemented in the case study at the local level. Conclusions: The results provide the important empirical contribution to physical planners at the state, regional and/or local level for creating development policies. The results show that some factors in the gravity model can be compensated with the change of the others and vice-versa.
Highlights
The separation of residential location and location of working places has led to complex commuting patterns, which have been extended in geographical scale over the past decades
The results show that some factors in the gravity model can be compensated with the change of the others and vice-versa
We presented the results of the analyses of the municipalities’ stickiness and the attractiveness for labour commuters in Slovenia in the period of ten years
Summary
The separation of residential location and location of working places has led to complex commuting patterns, which have been extended in geographical scale over the past decades. Models of commuting flows have become an important topic within regional science (Gorman et al, 2007; Rouwendal and Nijkamp, 2004). The importance of such models is among the others in making predictions about how changes in the spatial distribution of jobs and workers, or the infrastructure connecting the residential location and location of working places, might affect the region’s economy. It is mostly used in areas of transportation, physical planning, environmental studies, regional economics and geographical analysis (Taylor, 1975; Rich, 1980; Gitlesen and Jörnsten, 2000). Methods/Approach: The influence of the analysed parameters to the labour commuting flows has been studied in the extended gravity model. The results show that some factors in the gravity model can be compensated with the change of the others and vice-versa
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