Location-Specific Adjustments in Population and Employment across Metropolitan America

Prospects for service sector employment growth in non-metropolitan America.

"This paper focuses on how successfully non-metropolitan areas [in the United States] can compete for service-producing industry. Data on wage and salary employment for the 1969-84 period are used to assess how well non-metropolitan areas have been keeping up with metropolitan areas in expanding service jobs. Changes in patterns of employment growth in non-metropolitan and metropolitan servic...

The Composition of Metropolitan Employment and the Correlation of Housing Prices Across Metropolitan Areas

The variation in default rates by region is quite substantial. Default rates in the Northcentral states were about five times as large as default rates in the Southeastern states. These differences reflect the credit rate risk associated with the real estate markets in each of the regions, the fortunes of the regional economies, and the loan-tovalue ratios and ages of the mortgages.” Quigley an...

The Effect of Location Based Tax Incentives on Establishment Location and Employment Across Industry Sectors

This paper examines the potential for location-based employment tax incentives to have a differential effect on establishment location and employment across industry sectors. We model the differential effect of the location-based federal Empowerment Zone (EZ) wage tax credit on equilibrium labor and total cost savings across industry sectors. The model guides our empirical work, as we test the ...

Examination of the relative importance of hospital employment in non-metropolitan counties using location quotients.

INTRODUCTION The US Health Care and Social Services sector (North American Industrial Classification System 'sector 62') has become an extremely important component of the nation's economy, employing approximately 18 million workers and generating almost $753 billion in annual payrolls. At the county level, the health care and social services sector is typically the largest or second largest em...

Housing, location and employment