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Metropolitan area
About: Metropolitan area is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26029 publications have been published within this topic receiving 385648 citations. The topic is also known as: metro & metro area.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined changes in the distribution of metropolitan corporate dominance between 1980 and 1987 and related them to two sets of explanatory frameworks, one spatial and the other structural.
Abstract: During the last 30 years, U.S. metropolitan economies have experienced tremendous restructuring, and the locations of corporate headquarters have increasingly exhibited spatial shifts, both deconcentrating and dispersing. Theoretical explanations have suggested that the United States is entering the third of four stages, in which we are now witnessing the drive to regional maturity with no dominant regional center. Changes in the distribution of metropolitan corporate dominance between 1980 and 1987 are examined and related to two sets of explanatory frameworks, one spatial and the other structural. Changes in metropolitan corporate dominance were strongly related to spatial shifts in headquarters and asset location, especially shifts due to merger and acquisition activity. Changes in dominance were less strongly related to structural factors reflecting the degree of transition to the emerging service-based economy, even though population and location relative to New York were important. Finally, the effe...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the productivity gains from agglomeration economies for a sample of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States using measures based on employment density and employment accessibility.
Abstract: This paper estimates the productivity gains from agglomeration economies for a sample of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States using measures of urban agglomeration based on employment density and employment accessibility. The latter is a more accurate measure of economic proximity and allows testing for the spatial decay of agglomeration effects with increasing travel time. We find that the productivity gains from urban agglomeration are consistent between measures, with elasticity values between 0.07 and 0.10. The large majority of the productivity gains occur within the first 20 minutes, and do not appear to exhibit significant nonlinearities.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between daily mobility and labour market exclusion and found that the predominant car-based mobility model and the secondary role of public transport discriminate against non-car users when it comes to job opportunities.
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TL;DR: This article examined the interactions between two elite universities in Shanghai (Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University) and the metropolitan economy and analyzed major institutional changes within the universities and policy changes at local and national levels that have allowed more business engagement.
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