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The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDesmet, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorFafchamps, Marcel
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-11T07:47:19Z
dc.date.available2010-03-11T07:47:19Z
dc.date.issued2000-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the recent trends in the spatial distribution of economic activity in the United States. Using county-level employment data for 13 sector -which cover the entire economy- we apply semi-parametric techniques to estimate how agglometarion and congestion effects have changed between 1972 and 1992. Non-service sectors are found to be spreading out and moving away from centers of high economic activity to areas 20 to 60 kilometers away; service sectors, on the contrary, are increasingly concentrating in areas of high economic activity by attracting jobs from the surrounding 20 kilometers.
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/7252
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries2000-28
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherEconomic geography
dc.subject.otherSpatial externalities
dc.subject.otherU.S. counties
dc.titleThe changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties
dc.typeworking paper*
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