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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
 The Spatial Decay in Commuting Probabilities: Employment Potential vs. Commuting Gravity
 Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland November 2015
Paper No' SERCDP0188:
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JEL Classification: R12; R28; R38; R48

Tags: accessibility; commuting; employment; gravity; potential

We show that an employment potential capitalisation model, which establishes a spatial relationship between the price of land and the spatial distribution of employment through a transport matrix, produces estimates of the spatial decay in bilateral commuting probabilities that are very close to the decay observed in commuting data.
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