THE EFFECTS OF RURALITY AND INDUSTRIAL SPECIALIZATION ON INCOME GROWTH: U.S. COUNTIES 2000 TO 2003*

Brigitte Waldorf ()
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Brigitte Waldorf: Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Purdue University

No 07-01, Working Papers from Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: This paper— part of a comprehensive project on industry clusters and rural competitiveness— explores the role of industrial specialization and rurality on economic performance for counties in the continental United States. Regression models are estimated that evaluate the impact of industry cluster-specific employment shares on per capita income growth overall, as well as in a sequence of different contextual settings. Overall, the results suggest that economic disparities across U.S. counties will diminish. The results also suggest that economic specialization “per se” is not a guarantee for economic growth. Instead, economic growth very much depends on the type of specialization and the contextual setting, with distinct differences between, for example, the metropolitan sphere, the rural sphere, and the rural-metro interface.

Keywords: Manufactured Housing; Economic Growth, Industry Clusters, Rural America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O51 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2007
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-geo and nep-ure
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