Manufacturing location in a polycentric urban area: a study in the composition and attractiveness of employment subcenters
Centrality ; Dallas ; Employment ; Industrial location ; Industry ; Second order urban centre ; Texas ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban structure
The paper explores the nature and role of the principal employment centers within the Dallas-Fort Worth region from the perspective of locational choices by firms in three-digit SIC Manufacturing. The centers are identified via a that maps
employment polygons onto a zip code-level geography. The industrial attributes of firms choosing such centers are then investigated using multinomial logit.
Characteristics and processes of urbanization in the Caribbean
Caribbean ; City size ; Demographic change ; Housing ; Urban morphology ; Urban population ; Urbanization ; West Indies ; World
Synthesis of recent urbanization in the Caribbean, focusing on demographic growth, urban primacy, internal morphology, employment, housing, urban crime and perception.―(DWG)
The 1987 stock market crash and New York City employment : an intervention-multiplier analysis
Autoregressive process ; Economic base ; Employment ; Finance ; Induced effect ; Multiplicator ; New York City ; Time series ; United States ; Urban economy
Intervention analysis is used to assess the impact of the October 1987 stock market crash upon employment in the securities industry in New York City. Using a dynamic location quotient methodology to measure basic employment, an estimate
of a partial-adjustment economic base multiplier suggests that the employment is likely to decline, as a result of the crash and adjustments in the securities industry.
Rural-urban migration and unemployment : theory and policy implications
Economic equilibrium ; Employment ; Job creation ; Living standard ; Regional economy ; Regional model ; Rural outmigration ; Unemployment ; Urban immigration
that it is unique. Two policies are considered : decreasing urban unemployment benefits and subsidizing urbanemployment. Decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural–urban migration since new migrants have to spend some time
unemployed before they can find a job in the city. Raising employment subsidies increases urbanemployment but may also increase urban unemployment because it triggers more rural–urban migration.
Centrality ; Chicago ; Distance from city centre ; Employment ; Illinois ; Regression analysis ; Second order urban centre ; Suburbs ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban density ; Workplace
The paper uses data from the journey to work portion of the 1980 Census to estimate a polycentric model of employment density for the Chicago urbanised area. Distance to the Chicago central business district exerted a strong effect on employment
density, but density was also influenced by proximity to three suburban employment centres. Some 27 per cent of total employment growth in metropolitan Chicago over the next decade was concentrated in these three subcentres.
A spatial employment and economic development model
Chicago ; Employment ; Ethnic group ; Illinois ; Input-output model ; Neighbourhood ; Residential location ; Spatial interaction ; United States ; Urban economy ; Urban transport ; Working population ; Workplace
A large-scale model for urban and regional economic development planning is described. It is under development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The « Spatial Employment and Economic Development » procedure currently gives a variety of labor
Amazon Basin ; Economic activity ; Ecuador ; Employment ; Growth pole ; Informal sector ; Public service ; Town
Examination of economic activities and employment in four boom towns of the Ecuador Amazon or Oriente : Puyo, Nueva Loja, Tena and Coca. Data were obtained from the 1990 national population census and from field observations of urban establishments
in 1993. Results of the establishment survey are compared to those of similar studies in the Brazilian Amazon. Abundant self-employment in an informal sector and a large portion of the labor force in the public service sector is found. - (SLD)
An examination of extreme urban poverty : the effect of metropolitan employment and demographic dynamics
Deindustrialization ; Economic restructuring ; Employment ; Living standard ; Poverty ; Spatial concentration ; United States of America ; Urban district ; Urban economy
Job proximity and the urbanemployment problem : do suitable nearby jobs improve neighbourhood employment rates ?
Chicago ; Employment ; Labour ; Local labour market ; Model ; Professional qualification ; Unemployment ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Workplace
Comparative analysis of urban and industrial hierarchies of Romanian towns in 1990
Industrial concentration ; Industrial employment ; Industrialization ; Rank-size distribution ; Romania ; Urban growth ; Urban hierarchy ; Urbanization
Urban and industrial hierarchies can be constructed as synthetic indicators of urbanisation and industrialisation at a particular moment in time. The paper examines the relations between the urban and industrial hierarchies at all levels
Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia's cultural economy
Australia ; Cultural economy ; Cultural studies ; Economic activity ; Employment ; Regional development ; Sydney ; Urban development
The paper examines the significance and contribution of Australian creative industry activities in light of recent debates on the emergence of the cultural economy of cities. A set of observations of urban-regional change is used to demonstrate how
the notion of cultural economy should include complex interactions between the material activities of consumers and producers, and the discursive worlds of image makers and place marketers. Urban renewal, housing market pressures and intra-regional migration