Does Land Use Planning shape Regional Economies?

Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and not by employment growth. Growth of the regional housing stock responds only moderately to changes in the number of people and jobs. This lack of responsiveness to demand conditions is plausibly related to restrictions on residential development, implying that the regional distribution of economic activity in the Netherlands reflects land use planning decisions.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Vermeulen, Wouter ; van Ommeren, Jos
Publisher:	Amsterdam and Rotterdam : Tinbergen Institute
Subject:	Wohnungsmarkt \| Angebot \| Bodennutzung \| Raumordnungsrecht \| Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt \| Regionale Entwicklung \| Niederlande \| housing supply \| land use regulation \| regional labour markets \| regional development

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Series:	Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; 08-004/3
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	837937116 [GVK] hdl:10419/86724 [Handle] RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20080004 [RePEc]
Classification:	J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; R31 - Housing Supply and Markets ; R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
Source:	EconStor

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