Urban growth, transportation and the spatial dimension of the labour market: a note

  • Recently, Duranton and Turner estimated the impact of interstate highways on the average growth of US cities between 1983 and 2003. By estimating a structural model, one of their striking points is that increasing a city's initial stock of highways by 10 per cent leads to a 1.5 per cent positive respond of the city's employment over the sample period. This note mainly argues that their investigation leaves out potential spillovers of labour input from neighbouring growth centres/cities in the steady‐state directly implied by the open city assumption. More specifically, this contribution readily extends Duranton and Turner's work by a general equilibrium effect induced by the urban system's labour market fluctuations which is a direct consequence of the open city assumption.

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Author:Torben Klarl
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1109263
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/110926
ISSN:1056-8190OPAC
ISSN:1435-5957OPAC
Parent Title (English):Papers in Regional Science
Publisher:RSAI
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2015
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2024/01/19
Tag:Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Geography, Planning and Development
Volume:94
Issue:3
First Page:597
Last Page:605
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12081
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre / Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensführung und Organisation
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung (mit Print on Demand)

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