Silicon Mountains, Silicon Molehills: Geographic Concentration and Convergence of Internet Industries in the US

Jed Kolko

No DP2001-02, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of information technology on industrial patterns of concentration and convergence. Information-technology intensive industries exhibit slower employment convergence than other industries. The regression estimates suggest that the highest-IT industries exhibit employment convergence at only half the average rate for all industries. However, it is not the information-technology usage per se that is associated with slower convergence.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Industrial policy; Information technology; Urban economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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