An econometric model of metropolitan development
Expert InsightsPublished 1962
This paper presents a model of the population and employment changes that occurred in the 39 largest standard metropolitan statistical areas from 1954 to 1958. Among the questions this model is intended to answer are the following: Do population changes lead to employment changes? Is the opposite true? Or do the two simultaneously exert some influence on each other? Are employment and population declines occurring in some of the older central cities attributable to transportation system changes resulting from biases in public policy that favor capital expenditures for highways over those for public transit? Or are these declines caused by shifts in employment locations attributable to changes in production techniques and household locations? 38 pp.
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- Year: 1962
- Pages: 43
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: P-2663
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