RT Generic
T1 The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties
A1 Desmet, Klaus
A1 Fafchamps, Marcel
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB 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.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2000
FD 2000-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7252
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7252
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 28 may. 2024