An Empirical Analysis of Employment, Migration, Local Public Services and Regional Income Growth in Appalachia

Gebremeskel Gebremariam (), Tesfa Gebremedhin (), Peter Schaeffer, Randall Jackson () and Tim Phipps ()
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Gebremeskel Gebremariam: Department of Economics, Virginia Tech
Tesfa Gebremedhin: Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University
Tim Phipps: Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University

Working Papers from Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University

Abstract: This study develops a five-equation simultaneous system in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework. It improved previous models in the growth-equilibrium tradition by explicitly modeling local government and regional income in the growth process. It also explicitly modeled gross in-migration and gross out-migration separately in order to spell out the differential effects. The results show the existence of feedback simultaneities among the endogenous variables of the model. This finding is important from economic policy perspective because it indicates that sector specific policies should be integrated and harmonized in order to achieve the desirable outcome. Under this circumstance, looking at the direct plus indirect impacts of a change in a given policy is important.

Keywords: regional development; simultaneous equations; growth; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C3 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2007-06-10
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