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To analyze long-term postwar patterns of employment distribution across and within US metropolitan areas and identify the economic mechanisms driving job dispersion.

August 1, 2002Journal of Regional Science

Employment Deconcentration: A New Perspective on America’s Postwar Urban Evolution

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GCGerald A. CarlinoFederal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia SCSatyajit ChatterjeeFederal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Economic modeling analysis reveals postwar shifts in jobs toward lower-density metropolitan areas and suburbs, suggesting density-driven congestion costs drive national employment decentralization.

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To analyze long-term postwar patterns of employment distribution across and within US metropolitan areas and identify the economic mechanisms driving job dispersion.
Evaluated historical postwar employment shares across metropolitan statistical areas categorized by relative population and employment density.
Assessed spatial employment distributions within individual metropolitan statistical areas between central and peripheral zones.
Constructed a general equilibrium economic model incorporating density-driven congestion costs to theoretically explain the observed deconcentration patterns.
Urban employment shares significantly shifted away from relatively dense metropolitan areas toward less dense metropolitan areas throughout the postwar period.
A parallel deconcentration occurred within individual metropolitan areas, characterized by declining employment shares in denser urban cores and rising shares in less dense outlying sections.
Employment deconcentration operated as an independent structural phenomenon distinct from the broader regional migration from the Frostbelt to the Sunbelt.

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Carlino et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1043225725bbd5cc60be7e https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9787.00267

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Economic modeling analysis reveals postwar shifts in jobs toward lower-density metropolitan areas and suburbs, suggesting density-driven congestion costs drive national employment decentralization.

Employment Deconcentration: A New Perspective on America’s Postwar Urban Evolution

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Employment Deconcentration: A New Perspective on America’s Postwar Urban Evolution

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