Mulalic, I., van Ommeren, J.N. and Pilegaard, N. (2014). Wages and commuting: quasi-natural experiments' evidence from firms that relocate Economic Journal, 124(579):1086--1105.

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We examine individual-level compensating differentials for commuting distance in a quasi-natural experiment setting by examining how wages respond to changes in commuting distance induced by firm relocations. This set-up enables us to test for the relevance of job search frictions within labour market models. Due to the quasi-experimental set-up, we are able to avoid a range of endogeneity issues. We demonstrate that a 1 km increase in commuting distance induces an almost negligible wage increase in the year after the relocation but a more substantial wage increase of about 0.15% three years later. {\textcopyright} 2013 Royal Economic Society.