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The Role of Flexibility at Work on Residential Location: From the Work-Life Balance Perspective

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As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) advances, working conditions become more flexible with the help of telecommuting. Indeed, this change improves the work-life balance for existing employees and provides new job opportunities in a regional economy. This paper aims to describe how flexible working conditions contribute to the distance to work by using the National Household Travel Survey 2009 and 2017. First, the Geographic Information System (GIS) illustrates a distance increase from home to work at the state level. Then, the nested multinomial logit models examine how flexibility at work correlates with the distance between home and work. The results support that flexible working conditions correlate with employees’ distant residence from work, which potentially contributes to affordable housings and work-life balance.

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Kim, J. (2020). The Role of Flexibility at Work on Residential Location: From the Work-Life Balance Perspective. In: Jivetti, B., Hoque, M.N. (eds) Population Change and Public Policy. Applied Demography Series, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57069-9_12

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