Die Suburbanisierung der Beschäftigung: Eine empirische Untersuchung für Westdeutschland / The Suburbanization of Jobs: An Empirical Investigation for West Germany

Seitz Helmut
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Seitz Helmut: Fakultät für VWL und Statistik, Universität Mannheim, Seminargebäude A5, D-68131 Mannheim

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1996, vol. 215, issue 1, 69-91

Abstract: The paper examines the suburbanization of employment in West Germany. We start with a descriptive analysis of the flight of the jobs to the suburbs in the period 1980-1992 and briefly examine theoretical approaches within the urban economics literature to explain this process. It is argued that the usual empirical approach to study suburbanization by using density functions based on simple exponential forms is rather inappropriate. The framework proposed by Bradford and Keljian is used to examine the suburbanization of jobs within 91 West German urbanized areas. Our estimation results suggest that central city disadvantages, such as higher business tax rates, and central city problems, such as higher crime rates, are the main driving forces of the flight of jobs from cities.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1996-0106

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