Thomas De Graaff Regional Economics , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Piet Rietveld, Free University, Amsterdam. Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telework, Frequency of Working Out-of-home and Commuting - A Labor Supply Model and An Application to the Netherlands (assigned to theme N2)

This paper analyzes the case where workers have to choose between the location of work, leisure, commuting hours, non-commute travel and the frequency to work out-of-home. Both a short-run and a long-run model are presented. In the short-run, workers are not able to set their optimal amount of commuting time, where in the long-run commuting time is treated as an endogenous variable. Moreover, frequency of working out-of-home is explicitly taken into account, where it is assumed that there is an optimal frequency of commuting trips. An empirical model and estimation results for the Netherlands are offered. Preliminary results suggest that workers' optimal frequency of going to work is about 2.5 times a week and that individuals need at least 14 hours of pure leisure time per week. Moreover, working at home does not seem to be a necessary good.

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