Working Paper 37
Commuting patterns of Sunshine Coast residents and the impact of education
Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of commuting patterns within the Sunshine Coast and between the Sunshine Coast and neighbouring Local Government Areas in south east Queensland. This is done for different levels of education. It is shown that both human capital and job search theories predict that persons with higher levels of education are less sensitive to distance, with the result that they are prepared to travel further for work. This prediction is explicitly tested and confirmed for workers from the Sunshine Coast in this study, with data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing being used to undertake the analysis. This finding may have implications for the economic and social fortunes of less skilled workers on the Sunshine Coast whose welfare is likely to be more directly related to the performance of the local economy.
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