The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties
This paper studies the recent trends in the spatial distribution of economic activity in the United States. Using county-level employment data for 13 sectors - which cover the entire economy - we apply semi-parametric techniques to estimate how agglomeration and congestion effects have changed betwe...
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| description | This paper studies the recent trends in the spatial distribution of economic activity in the United States. Using county-level employment data for 13 sectors - which cover the entire economy - we apply semi-parametric techniques to estimate how agglomeration 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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7360c46a-cbd9-417f-bac6-42b31547cb522022-03-26T19:56:07ZThe changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. countiesWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:7360c46a-cbd9-417f-bac6-42b31547cb52Symplectic ElementsBulk import via SwordUniversity of Oxford2000Fafchamps, MDesmet, KThis paper studies the recent trends in the spatial distribution of economic activity in the United States. Using county-level employment data for 13 sectors - which cover the entire economy - we apply semi-parametric techniques to estimate how agglomeration 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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| title | The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties |
| title_full | The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties |
| title_fullStr | The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties |
| title_full_unstemmed | The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties |
| title_short | The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties |
| title_sort | changing spatial distribution of economic activity across u s counties |
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