재택근무는 주거입지 선택에 있어 고용입지에 대한 종속성을 약화시키는가? - 수도권의 정보화직종 종사자를 대상으로 한 실증연구 -

Although many theorists and futurists have argued that telecommuting could increase locational flexibility of household, causing telesprawl, empirical evidence regarding this argument is scant and inconclusive. Besides, previous studies have given little consideration to the relationship between telecommuters’ job and residential locations. Against this backdrop, this study empirically investigates the possibility of telesprawl in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) focusing on the impacts of telecommuting on the dependent relationships between job and residential locations. Firstly, a numerical interpretation on housing price function reveals that ‘the tradeoff between travel costs and housing costs’, which is a theoretical background of telesprawl, is not valid in the SMA. Next, using data from the 2006 Seoul Metropolitan Area Household Travel Survey, our empirical approaches show that the impact of job location on residential location is higher in telecommuter household than in commuter household. In addition, the models for the households with two or more workers suggests that breadwinner`s job location is more critical than the second breadwinner`s for the residential location choice, even though the breadwinner telecommutes. These results lead us to the conclusion that telecommuting cannot weaken the dependent relationship between job and residential location, in contrast to the theoretical expectations.