Transport tax reform, commuting, and endogenous values of time |
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Authors: | Bruno De Borger Kurt Van Dender |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Economics, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, B-2000, Antwerpen, Belgium;b Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-5100, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider a model of urban transport with two trip purposes, commuting (assumed perfectly complementary to labour supply) and noncommuting, to analyse the effects of transport tax reform on the value of time and marginal external congestion costs. Higher commuting taxes plausibly reduce time values, but higher noncommuting transport prices will typically raise the value of time. The intuition for this latter finding is that the reduction in congestion that follows from the tax increase itself raises net wages per hour of work (inclusive of commuting time). Empirical illustrations with Belgian data show a potentially large effect of transport tax reform on time values. In quite a few of the tax reforms studied traffic levels are reduced, but the increase in time values implies that marginal external congestion costs actually increase. |
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Keywords: | Transport Congestion Value of time |
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