ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of job moving, residential moving and commuting behaviour in the Netherlands. It explains new insights for the reader into the relationship between commuting behaviour and the functioning of the labour and housing market. Empirical estimates for the marginal willingness to pay for commuting have been provided taking into account that workers may change job and residence. The demand for commuting is a derived demand in order to spatially connect the labour and housing market. Policies which are formulated in order to reduce the external costs of commuting may thus focus on potential market imperfections in the labour and housing market. The spatial structure of the economy has received some attention, although maybe not to the extent it deserves. It seems therefore worthwhile to introduce the spatial structure more explicitly in the search model. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
