Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - European Regional Science Association - 2011
A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth averaged 2.1 percent in urban counties during 1998-2007, compared with just 1 percent in rural counties. In this study, we examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the...