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

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7252
ISSN: 2340-5031
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2000-12
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This 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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Economic geography, Spatial externalities, U.S. counties
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