Numerous techniques have been devised to make economic base analysis more cost-effective. The simplest of these, the assignment or assumption method, allocates the entire employment (income) of each industry to either the basic or nonbasic sector of the regional economy. Unfortunately,...

This paper uses OLS regression to analyze the relationships existing between occupation jobs and industry jobs in small southwestern U.S. towns. First, occupation employment in the representative town is estimated from its industry employment. Then the towns are classified into different...

This paper investigates geographic relationships in a land use based regional adjustment model containing equations for population density, employment density, and wages in the continental United States during the 1980s and 1990s. The results of the analysis suggest that (1) accounting for...

This note on the paper of Mulligan and Fik (Annals of Regional Science 23: 187-201) is based on the need for consistent models. If we look at the spatial oligopoly approach of Mulligan and Fik from this point of view, we can draw two conclusions: First, their model does not indicate any reasons...