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ABSTRACTThe annual growth rates of total personal income and population in regional metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas are examined for the period 1959–87, partitioned into sub periods. Statistical testing for equality of rates shows no perceptible differences in growth rates between the major categories, metro and nonmetro. Further, this study uses a model similar in scope to shift‐share analysis to test for convergence of the growth rates within these categories. It was found that for both regional nonmetro and metro areas, there was a general trend toward convergence with the exception of the 1970s decade. In that decade total population growth rates in the nonmetro areas and total income and total population growth rates in the metro areas showed significant diverge

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00569.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to examine how regional manufacturing responds to a decline in manufacturing activity nationwide. A trivariate VAR model of the relationships between the Federal Reserve Board's Industrial Production Index for manufacturing, and two regional manufacturing output indexes is estimated. The regions considered correspond to the Fifth and the Seventh Federal Reserve Districts. A negative shock in the national index is imposed on the system to demonstrate the following: durations and general patterns of the impulse responses; severity of the responses in the two patterns; reaction times; and interregional differences in response patterns. The findings indicate that the response patterns generally differ between the regions.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00570.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTAre recent trends toward state per capita income divergence observed in the United States also evident elsewhere in the world? This paper focuses upon interregional income divergence in Australia where a pattern very similar to that seen in the United States is discovered. Australian agricultural regions show downward divergence from the national mean per capita income and capital city regions show upward divergence.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00571.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis paper quantifies for the first time the economic impacts of elderly in‐migration on the output, earnings, and employment of a receiving state's economy. Data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and estimates of the total redistribution of income to Florida resulting from elderly in‐migration are used to calculate the direct effects by industry. A model for the state of Florida based on the Regional Input‐Output Modeling System (RIMS II) is used to estimate the total impacts. The large migration flows and the considerable economic resources of the elderly lead to large, positive total impacts on the Florida ec

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00572.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTMany rural hierarchies are becoming increasingly dominated by a few regional growth centers while the retail sector in adjacent smaller communities either stagnates or declines. This study tests the hypothesis that the rate of adjustment of the retail sector to changing consumer spending patterns is uniform across different ordered communities in a rural hierarchy. Neoclassical investment theory is combined with central place theory to develop a conceptual model of the relationship between the retail sector and investment in a community. A three tiered 49 community hierarchy is constructed using data from the Minnesota Department of Revenue and the Report of Condition and Income of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A crosssectional time series ordinary least squares regression model is employed to estimate retail coefficients of adjustment for the hypothesis testing. Regional estimates indicate only partial adjustment in the retail sector across the whole hierarchy to shifts in consumer spending patterns. Community estimates, which decompose the regional estimate, indicate retail businesses in the largest and mid‐sized communities adjust totally in one period, but that retail businesses in the smallest communities do not. The faster rates of adjustment by retail businesses in the larger communities to changing consumer spending patterns may augment the development of regional growth centers in rural area

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00573.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTA case study of the local labor market for engineers and scientists at three Lockheed plants in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is presented. The specifications of a questionnaire survey are described and a detailed statistical profile of questionnaire respondents is laid out. It is shown that the local labor market is highly concentrated in geographical space and that both job shifts and residence shifts of sampled workers tend to be extremely localized within the urban area. It is suggested that local labor markets with features like these are a source of significant agglomeration economies for employers.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00574.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviews in this article:Liberalization of EconomiesAndrás Köves and Paul Marer, eds.Development in Small Island CountriesDavid L. McKee and Clem Tisdell.The Challenge of SuburbanizationThomas M. Stanback, Jr.Can Rural America Survive?Janet M. FitchenEconomic Development PoliciesTimothy J. Bartik.Regional InnovationE. J. Davela

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1992.tb00575.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY