Labour opportunities provided by Spanish high-speed rail (HSR) commuting services in a period of financial crisis: an approach based on regional wage disparities and housing rental prices

ABSTRACT

Labour migration derived from interregional high-speed rail (HSR) commuting is a relatively new behaviour, whose development has partly coincided with a worldwide period of recession. Little research has been done to date to assess the influence of HSR on interregional labour mobility data taking into account key variables linked to a time of financial crisis. Using interregional labour mobility figures (2002–14), a model based on a multivariate panel data analysis was tested to estimate HSR impacts in the three main Spanish interregional commuting relations.

KEYWORDS:

• high-speed rail
• labour market
• transport planning
• commuting

JEL:

• J1
• J18
• J61
• J92

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Begoña Guirao http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4138-0073