A Heuristic Model of the Spatial Interaction between Job Locations & the Potential Employees in Urban Metropolitan Areas

The wide spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) reshapes the nature of urban development and economic growth. ICT introduces a new online recruitment dimension for the employers and potential employees (job seekers) locations in both public and private sectors. Therefore, the introduction of ICT affects the economic growth as part of urban planning process. The researchers pay little attention to understand specifically how ICT changes the spatial interaction between the job locations and employees. There is a little attention on how the ICT reshapes the labor market and housing development. Moreover, the interaction between job locations and the employees has spatial characteristics. Consequently, there is a need to model the changes in this relationship (spatial and non-spatial) in-depth to sustain the economic growth.The first implication of the research draws the relationship between urban features of jobs and the employees' choices by combining findings from the previous extensive literature. The second objective introduces a heuristic model that describes the rules for job locations and potential employees in urban area. Such a model can support decision making of allocating the future housing settlements as well as monitoring the expected migration rates between various urban metropolitan areas