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A New Look at the Determinants of the Intrametropolitan Distribution of Population and Employment

Department of Finance and Economics, Landrum Box 8151, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA

Brian Cushing

Department of Economics and Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University

The intrametropolitan distribution of population and employment is a topic of considerable interest due to its implications for urban development. We develop an econometric model relating these distributions to a variety of factors. Using several unique explanatory variables and allowing for multiple suburban jurisdictions enable us to model better the spatial aspects of a metropolitan area. We find that housing cost and quality are the most important determinants of the population distribution, which is the most important determinant of the employment distribution; however, causation between population and employment runs both ways. Spatial factors, including transport infrastructure, play an important role in metropolitan development. The importance of various factors differs between manufacturing and non-manufacturing employment and between the white and non-white populations.

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