RT Journal Article
T1 Changes in the spatial concentration of employment across US counties : a sectoral analysis 1972–2000
A1 Desmet, Klaus
A1 Fafchamps, Marcel
AB Using US county data, we estimate employment growth equations to analyze how the spatial distribution of jobs has changed between 1972 and 2000. We find that total employment has become increasingly concentrated. This aggregate picture hides important sectoral differences though: whereas non-service employment has been spreading out, service jobs have clustered in areas of high aggregate employment. By controlling for employment at different distances, we explicitly take into account the spatial dimension. This allows us to conclude that the spreading out of non-service jobs has benefitted counties 20 to 70 km away from large agglomerations, whereas the concentration of services has come at the expense of jobs in the surrounding 20 kilometers.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 1468-2710
YR 2005
FD 2005-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4797
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4797
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 19 may. 2024