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Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions


Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions

This report aims to help leaders and local stakeholders understand how the changing demands for place are shifting the concentration and dispersal of economic ...

Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions

Job density increased steadily over the course of the economic recovery from. 2009 to 2015 as denser urban areas added jobs faster than their less-dense ...

Where Jobs Are Concentrating and Why It Matters To Cities ... - Scribd

This document examines trends in job density across U.S. metro areas from 2004 to 2015. It finds that overall job density increased, driven by growth in a ...

Job Density: A new metric for urban economies | City Observatory

The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program has a new report out, Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and ...

The Productive Power of Urban 'Activity Centers' - Bloomberg News

This shouldn't have come as much of a shock. Cities emerged and developed in part to concentrate and connect talent and jobs — a need that didn' ...

Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions

This report aims to help leaders and local stakeholders understand how the changing demands for place are shifting the concentration and dispersal of ...

Why the number of jobs in your city is important for you and your city

Job density is increasing in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas and has been since 2007, according to the Brookings study. While the numbers ...

Job Density in the Mountain West - Digital Scholarship @UNLV

... Concentrating and Why it Matters to Cities and Regions, analyzes job density “within and across 94 of the nation's largest metro areas.”3 A ...

The Rise in the Residential Concentration of Joblessness in ...

In addition, increased distance may limit access to information about available jobs or create negative attitudes about central city workers among employers.

Jobs Permanently Shifting from Cities to Suburbs in COVID Economy

There is a significant gap in the recoveries experienced by small businesses in the urban cores of large metropolitan areas and those in ...

Why the New U.S. Job Hot-Spots are in the Sunbelt - What's News

The nation's hottest job spots are shifting to Sunbelt cities. Before the pandemic, the West was leading jobs growth. An analysis by the ...

5 strategies for cities to navigate the changing employment space

Although technology is becoming more pervasive, tech jobs aren't the only ones in demand. Cities can aim to foster a diverse job base rather ...

Job Density Is Increasing in Superstar Cities and Sprawling in Others

This growth in job density has been driven both by their concentration in certain cities and metros, and by the tendency of knowledge jobs ...

How the Geography of Jobs Affects Unemployment | Richmond Fed

During the 2000s and 2010s, jobs have been moving out of the city center. A Brookings Institution report in 2009 by Elizabeth Kneebone found that, between 1998 ...

The impact of agglomeration on the economy - Centre for Cities

This is particularly important for on-the-job learning, with proximity to colleagues serving as a sort of apprenticeship scheme for younger ...

'Job Density' Uptick in U.S. Metro Areas is Mainly Driven by Four Cities

“The large rise in job density during the recent economic expansion suggests that place actually matters more, not less, in today's digital ...

Employment Access in US Metropolitan Areas (2017)

Economic growth of metropolitan areas is enhanced by employment access --- the greater the number of jobs that the average worker can reach ...

90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

Technology jobs and the economic prosperity they bring are being concentrated in fewer US cities, according to a new report from The ...

Identifying Concentrations of Employment in Metropolitan Areas

... Further, it is important to identify small job concentrations since they might grow faster that the established large areas of employment (Giuliano et al., ...

The Economic Reality That's Splitting the Country Apart

The nation's economic activity is increasingly concentrated in a tiny fraction of major metropolitan areas. By nearly every measure that matters ...


Reshaping Rochester Lecture with Jennifer Vey