 High-speed railway and urban sectoral employment in ChinaXiaofang Dong Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 116, issue C, 603-621 Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of the High-Speed Railway (HSR) on urban sectoral employment using China’s city-level data from 2003 to 2015. I found that cities connected to the HSR network experienced a significant growth in the employment of the retail/wholesale and hotel/food industries, while no measurable effects were found in other sectors. In order to explore whether the HSR effects are a growth or reorganization, this paper compared the effects of the HSR on the connected cities to those on adjacent cities, and found that the HSR promoted growth in the cities it directly passed through by drawing activities away from their neighbors. The further market potential approach suggests that the more people connected to the city within one to four commuting hours through the High-Speed Railway network, the higher the employment growth will be in the related sectors. Keywords: High-Speed Railway; Urban employment; Adjacent cities; Market potential (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transa:v:116:y:2018:i:c:p:603-621 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.07.010 Access Statistics for this article Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is currently edited by John (J.M.) Rose More articles in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice from Elsevier |
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