Upcoming Seminar @ Choice Modelling Centre, UoL


The Impact of Accessibility on Labor Earnings

Speaker: Maria Börjesson, Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Transport Studies,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Thursday 13th October 2016, 11:00 to 12:00
Liberty Building SR (1.13)

Abstract
We estimate to what extent decision makers can induce agglomeration by investing in transport improvements increasing the job accessibility, and how this in turn influences wage growth. We deal with endogeneity by modelling changes over 11 years using micro-level panel data and using the FE estimator, controlling for all time invariant unobserved variables. The endogeneity not controlled for by the FE estimator is dealt with by using an instrument that is also based on temporal changes. We control for both zone-specific and individual-specific fixed effects by separating workers who have changed zone of residence and those who have stayed. The accessibility is derived from a transport model, taking into account consumer behavior and preferences for all travel modes and travel time components.  The elasticity of accessibility defined from the worker's place of residence is estimated at 0.007. The elasticity of wage earnings with respect to job accessibility at the work location is only significant for workers changing work location and for those estimated at 0.015.
About Maria : Maria's research interests include transport cost-benefit analysis, appraisal and sustainability, transport policy and pricing, public opinions, transport modelling, travel behaviour, gender differences, active mobility and cycling, the impact of the transport system on employment and GDP, survey design, choice experiments, and econometrics for valuation of non-market goods such as travel time, reliability and security.
Maria is responsible for the design and econometric analysis of the Swedish national value of time study 2007-2010, the national value of reliability study 2009-2012 and the benefit calculations of HSR for the Swedish Government in 2010. Head scientific advisor of the design and evaluation of the congestion pricing scheme in Gothenburg introduced 2013. Expert advisor in evaluation and current update of the Stockholm congestion charges (2010-current).
External affiliated to the Choice modelling Centre, ITS Leeds. Secretary of the board of International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA). Member of SNS Konjunkturråd 2016 (Economic Policy Co uncil 2016: Centre for Business and Policy Studies). Member of the scientific council of the Audit office 2016. Editorial Board of Transport Reviews. Teacher of ITEA Annual Summer School. Chair of the Organizing Committee of ITEA Annual Conference 2011. Frequently guest speaker in political contexts on city and national levels (parliament, ministries, political parties and authorities), by interests groups and conferences.


Upcoming Seminars:



*          November
10th: Amanda Stathopoulos, Empirical analysis of crowd-sourced freight deliveries
11:00 - 12:00, Business School Maurice Keyworth SR (1.15)

24th: Maria Kamargianni, Incorporating social influence into hybrid choice models
11:00 - 12:00, Business School Maurice Keyworth SR (1.15)

December
15th: Prof Elisabetta Cherchi, The effect of informational and normative conformity in the preference for electric vehicles.
11:00 - 12:00, TBD


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Charisma F. Choudhury, PhD
Deputy-Director, Choice Modelling Centre
Lecturer, Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds