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A Comparative Analysis of Employment Change in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Jeffrey D. White  and
Steven E. Hastings
Jeffrey D. White
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Delaware
Steven E. Hastings
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Delaware
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Abstract

A modified version of shift-share analysis is used to examine spatial, temporal and compositional trends in employment growth in the Northeastern United States during the 1970s. The analysis is presented for subregions, states and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. Secondary data compiled by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis is used.

Employment growth in the Northeast, though positive overall, did not keep pace with that of the nation. While the distribution of employment among industries was very similar in the Northeast and the United States, the performance of these industries was not. The same was true for the three major subregions that comprise the Northeast. Nonmetropolitan counties outperformed their metropolitan counterparts in employment growth during the decade, with the most rural county types showing the greatest percentage employment growth.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 37 - 43
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This paper is published with the approval of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station as Miscellaneous Paper No. 1033 by the Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, College of Agricultural Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711. The authors acknowledge the constructive comments of the anonymous reviewers.

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