Dan Rickman, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA, Mark Partridge, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
U.S. Metropolitan Poverty and Economic Growth in the 1990s (assigned to theme
This paper empirically examines the relationship between U.S. metropolitan area poverty and economic growth in the 1990s. To address the issue of spatial mismatch and employment growth, particular attention is given to whether there are differential growth effects across location in the metropolitan area, and across ethnicity and race. In addition, the empirical analysis is performed separately for three size categories of metropolitan areas. The regression results provide some evidence of spatial mismatch, particularly in large metropolitan areas. Consistent with accessibility constraints in large metropolitan areas, central-county employment growth significantly reduces poverty rates in large metropolitan areas—especially when there is a higher share of blacks--while there are not distinct central-county effects in medium and small metropolitan areas. Only in medium metropolitan areas does overall metro area employment growth significantly reduce the overall poverty rate, suggesting fewer transportation and information constraints than in large metropolitan areas.
submitted 2005-04-22 12:00:06.560
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