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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001
The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked extremely similar to urban growth during the prior post-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three...
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …
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Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide : initial results from a pre-specified analysis plan
Neumark, David; Yen, Maysen - 2020
employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A. (contributor); Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2008
a measure of consumer revealed preferences for local leisure-oriented amenities. Population and employment growth in the …
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The size distribution across all "cities" : a unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
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Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, and Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Cities During the Progressive Era
Rauch, James E. - 1994
manufacturing employment by one-half percent per year …
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Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization : The United States, 1850-1860
Steckel, Richard H. - 1987
This paper utilizes a national sample of nearly 1,600 households linked in the census manuscript schedules to investigate causes and consequences of migration to urban areas during the midst of America's industrial revolution. Although record linkage was limited to the subset of households that...
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Urban Growth Shadows
Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...
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Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities : Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
Kim, Sukkoo - 2006
Industrial revolution in the United States first took hold in rural New England as factories arose and grew in a handful of industries such as textiles and shoes. However, as factory scale economies rose and factory production techniques were adopted by an ever growing number of industries,...
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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...
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