Books reviewed: Industrial Location Economics, Philip McCann. The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement, Stephen L. Ross and John Yinger. Start-Up Factories: High-Performance Management, Job Quality, and Regional Advantage, Peter B....

Books reviewed in this article: Carl Abbott, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest Massimo Gastaldi and Aura Reggiani, New Analytical Advances in Transportation and Spatial Dynamics Manfred M. Fischer and Josef Frohlich (eds.), Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation...

This paper uses the Mead/Ramsay version of shift/share analysis to investigate the comparative employment performance (80s vs. 70s) of the 50 states and D.C. State performance is ranked and compared with various measures of business climate, labor costs and trade sensitivity. The results are...

This article places urban industrial reform in China in its broad historical context. The reform initiatives to date are a direct reaction to shortcomings of planning. While decentralization and increased reliance on markets and short-range managerial decisionmaking are more commonly noted in...

This article focuses on the role of real and money wages in a state’s growth (macro) and location (micro) prospects. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey for 2000 were used first to indirectly estimate state cost-of-living (COL) indices....