Agglomeration, Congestion, and U.S. Regional Disparities in Employment Growth

Saito, Hisamitsu; Wu, Junjie

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“…Local employment growth depends on a range of factors which have been analyzed in a now large literature on urban growth (see, e.g., Cheshire & Magrini, 2006, 2009da Mata, Deichmann, Henderson, Lall, & Wang, 2007;Duranton, 2016;Duranton & Turner, 2012;Glaeser, Kallal, Scheinkman, & Shleifer, 1992;Glaeser, Scheinkman, and Shleifer, 1995;Glaeser & Saiz, 2004;Henderson et al, 1995;Simon, 1998). Studies related to rural growth (Ganning, Baylis, & Lee, 2013;Lavesson, 2017;Partridge et al, 2007Partridge et al, , 2008aPartridge et al, , 2008b and papers that have considered both types of locations (see, e.g., Ahrend & Schumann, 2014;Beeson, DeJong, & Troesken, 2001;Combes, 2000;Desmet & Fafchamps, 2005;Saito & Wu, 2016, Veneri & Ruiz, 2016 have also studied the determinants of local growth. Regarding the resilience literature, Martin and Sunley (2015) present a set of main determinants of regional resilience.…”

Section: Determinants Of Local Employment Growthmentioning

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Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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The 2008 financial and economic crisis has led to widespread destruction of employment in Spain. Using municipality data, I examine employment growth differences between urban cores, urban hinterlands, and rural areas during the pre‐crisis period and the recession period. The data show that patterns of growth and decline have been very uneven across different types of areas. While in the boom years, hinterlands and rural areas experienced higher growth, urban core areas have done better during the recession years. I then test three strands of explanations for local growth differences: (i) the role of the local sectoral composition, (ii) the role of human capital, and (iii) the role of access to urban core areas. Estimations for employment growth in the two periods show that the crisis has altered some of the drivers of local employment growth and that human capital has been a key determinant of local resilience during the Great Recession.

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Section: Determinants Of Local Employment Growthmentioning

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“…The results indicate that the service sector has been the main driving force of employment growth during this period. This is in line with other studies (e.g.,Desmet & Fafchamps 2005;Saito & Wu 2016, for the United States). The Herfindahl index shows the expected negative sign, indicating that more diversified local economies have grown more.…”

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Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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“…In general, however, agglomeration and (spatial) concentration are often used interchangeably (Nakamura & Morrison Paul, ) with agglomeration used as a generic term that can capture different levels of industrial activity . Finally, of course, agglomerations of economic activity in a given location may also induce congestion costs (Saito & Wu, ) and therefore possible disagglomeration economies (Iammarino & McCann, ) so that a net effect of agglomeration economies will only be present if this compensates more than these countervailing forces (Poelhekke & van der Ploeg, ; Wren & Jones, ).…”

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Agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment: A meta‐analysis

Jones

2017

Journal of Regional Science

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This paper undertakes a meta-analysis of the effect of agglomeration economies on foreign direct investment (FDI) location. It finds strong differences in these economies arising from both measurement and study-specific characteristics. Economies generated from domestic rather than foreign activity have the strongest effects on FDI, with the latter only significant if related to the home country of the investor. Support is also found for studies that identify different sources of agglomeration economies, although this is largely underexplored in the empirical literature. The average agglomeration economies estimate is not influenced by publication bias and indicates genuine effects for agglomeration economies on FDI location choice. K E Y W O R D Sagglomeration economies, FDI, industrial location, meta-analysis J Regional Sci. 2017;57:731-757.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jors

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“…Scholars have also used various other models to prove that people with higher human capital have spent less time in finding jobs (Akram & Nymoen, 2006;Riddell & Song, 2011;Saito & Wu, 2016). Huang (2008) proposed an employability hypothesis based on human capital.…”

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Human Capital and English Language Proficiency in the Chinese Context

Luo¹,

Daly²

2019

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The employment problem of college graduates has evoked concern around the world, which is particularly prominent in China in recent years. At the same time, English language proficiency of Chinese college students has been emphasized within their university academic requirements as well as from prospective employers. The consequent market pressure on Chinese college students to obtain language qualifications has created an environment where not only the utility, but also the symbolic value of English proficiency has become essential. Human capital theory describes the complex connection between language proficiency and employment, as a foreign language skill, English is similar to other human capital and has the potential for economic value. From the theoretical perspective for relationship between English language proficiency and employment of college graduates based on human theory, recommendations are made for further both scholarly research and practitioner policies, namely: National College English Teaching Syllabus, Regulations for Full-time Undergraduate Bachelor's Degree-granting, and Regulations for the Graduation Project.

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Agglomeration, Congestion, and U.S. Regional Disparities in Employment Growth

Cited by 24 publications

References 61 publications

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment: A meta‐analysis

Human Capital and English Language Proficiency in the Chinese Context

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