Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Employment Trends in the US: Recent Evidence and Implications

Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Employment Trends in the US: Recent Evidence and Implications

Employment trends are analysed for the period 1969-94 across metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas (disaggregated spatially) by region and by sector. The decentralisation story is persistent but complex. The 1980s turns out to be an aberration (and even in that period, suburban growth was stronger...

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Veröffentlicht in:Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Scotland), 1998-06, Vol.35 (7), p.1037-1057
Hauptverfasser: Gordon, Peter, Richardson, Harry W., Yu, Gang
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agglomeration
Analysis
Business services
Census of Population
Cities
Cities and towns
Costs
Decentralization
Economic growth
Economic growth rate
Economies of agglomeration
Employment
Growth
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industries
Metropolitan areas
Population growth
Rural areas
Startups
Suburban areas
Suburbs
Trends
Urban areas
Urban development
Urban economics
Urban renewal
Urbanization
Wholesale trade
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Zusammenfassung:Employment trends are analysed for the period 1969-94 across metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas (disaggregated spatially) by region and by sector. The decentralisation story is persistent but complex. The 1980s turns out to be an aberration (and even in that period, suburban growth was stronger than central-city growth), because since 1988 the vigorous non-metropolitan growth of the 1970s has resumed, and now has a clear rural emphasis.
ISSN:0042-0980
1360-063X
DOI:10.1080/0042098984475