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This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the...
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The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and local governments; (2) expand the federal role in...
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Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and … workers. This paper describes the current conditions of urban labor markets and outlines a national urban policy agenda that … addresses these concerns by taking into account cities' spatial dimension. The paper argues that a national urban labor policy …
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