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Title: Job Decentralization and Residential Location

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This paper addresses a central question in urban economics: how does the spatial distribution of employment opportunities influence residential location? Over the past fifty years, both employment and population left central cities for the suburban ring. Between 1960 and 2000, the share of metropolitan Americans who lived in the suburban ring increased from 48 to 68 percent. Over the same period, the share of metropolitan residents who worked outside the city rose from 41 percent to 58 percent. The decentralization of both employment and population has led economists to ask whether workers followed jobs out to the suburbs or jobs followed workers. Answering this question is complicated by the fundamental simultaneity of the location decisions of workers and firms.

Url: http://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2009/08/IED-Research-Review-2009.pdf

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Authors: Boustan, Leah Platt; Margo, Robert A

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Publication Number: 177

Institution: The Institute for Economic Development at Boston University

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Publisher Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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