The Changing Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity Across U.S. Counties

Marcel Fafchamps, Klaus Desmet and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

No 43, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the recent trends in the spatial distribution of economic activity in the United States. Using county-level employment data for 13 sectors - which cover the entire economy - we apply semi-parametric techniques to estimate how agglomeration and congestion effects have changed between 1972 and 1992. Non-service sectors are found to be spreading out and moving away from centers of high economic activity to areas 20 to 60 kilometers away; service sectors, on the contrary, are increasingly concentrating in areas of high economic activity by attracting jobs from the surrounding 20 kilometers.

Keywords: economic geography; agglomeration; congestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-12-01
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