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Author: Sriraj, P.S.
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1. Thakuriah, Piyushimita
Persky, Joseph
Soot, Siim
Sriraj, P.S.
Costs and Benefits of Employment Transportation for Low-Wage Workers: An Assessment of Job Access Public Transportation Services
Evaluation and Program Planning 37 (April 2013): 31-42.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718912000894
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Commuting/Type, Time, Method; Economic Well-Being; Human Capital; Program Participation/Evaluation; Transportation; Wages

This paper focuses on an evaluation of public transportation-based Employment Transportation (ET) services to transport low-wage workers to jobs in the US. We make an attempt to capture a more comprehensive range of intended and unintended outcomes of ET services than those traditionally considered in the case of public transportation services. Using primary data from 23 locations across the country, we present a framework to evaluate how transportation improvements, in interaction with labor markets, can affect users’ short-run economic welfare, users’ long-run human capital accumulation and non-users’ short-run economic welfare. These services were partially funded by a specialized program - the Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program - which was consolidated into larger transit funding programs by recent legislation. In the sites examined, we found that low wage users benefitted from self-reported increased access to jobs, improvements in earnings potential, as well as from savings in transport cost and time. Simulations show the potential of users to accrue long-term worklife benefits. At the same time, users may have accrued changes in leisure time as a result of transitioning from unemployment to employment, and generated a range of societal impacts on three classes of non-users: the general tax-paying public, the general commuting public in the service operating area and other low-wage workers in local labor markets.
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Thakuriah, Piyushimita, Joseph Persky, Siim Soot and P.S. Sriraj. "Costs and Benefits of Employment Transportation for Low-Wage Workers: An Assessment of Job Access Public Transportation Services." Evaluation and Program Planning 37 (April 2013): 31-42.