The employment cycles of neighboring cities
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Abstract
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. Neighboring cities, which are large and closely integrated cities within the same metro area, tend to have relatively similar employment cycles. However, this is largely because they tend to be in the same state, not because they are neighbors. Depending on differences in size, density, and human capital, neighborness usually means that cities have relatively dissimilar employment cycles. I attribute this result to the tendency for cities within the same metro area to specialize according to function and human capital.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.06.008
Publication Date
1-2013
Recommended Citation
Wall, Howard J., "The employment cycles of neighboring cities" (2013). Faculty Scholarship. 225.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/faculty-research-papers/225