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Prof. Dr. Mark Partridge
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

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Research article
Published: 30 June 2021 in Regional Studies
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While urban technology exerts a positive effect on rural development through knowledge spillovers, it also raises the competitive advantage of urban firms over rural firms in product market competition. Urban technology also affects the rural labour market through brain drain. Using US county-level data, we find a negative relationship between metropolitan patent counts and non-metropolitan labour market performance. Our basic calculation indicates that, between 2005 and 2015, metropolitan technological progress was associated with a relative loss of about 2.5 million non-metropolitan jobs.

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Oudom Hean; Mark D. Partridge. The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents. Regional Studies 2021, 1 -13.

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Oudom Hean, Mark D. Partridge. The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents. Regional Studies. 2021; ():1-13.

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Oudom Hean; Mark D. Partridge. 2021. "The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents." Regional Studies , no. : 1-13.

Journal article
Published: 18 March 2021 in Sociology of Development
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Sociologists have long recognized uneven development within nations and differential patterns of poverty and prosperity across places. In analyzing why some places fare better than others, researchers largely focus on market forces. Few studies have considered the role of the local state. Yet in many countries today local governments have gained responsibilities and control as national governments offload responsibilities. This shift toward localized government is often associated with neoliberalism. The conventional view is pessimistic about local governments, stressing their potential to reinforce poverty and inequality. Our research challenges this view. We advance a counter-perspective that builds from two subnational literatures, one on poverty and place and the other, mesocomparative research on the state. Focusing on the United States, we examine whether local governments are linked to poverty and income inequality. Using unique data that span all communities (over 3,000 county areas) over the Great Recession, we show that the institutional capacity and spending policy of local governments at the outset of the recession influenced how communities fared subsequently. To our knowledge, this is the first sociological study that integrates theoretical understanding of local state processes and research aimed at explaining poverty and inequality across the United States.

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Linda Lobao; Alexandra Tsvetkova; Gregory Hooks; Mark Partridge. Seeing the Local State. Sociology of Development 2021, 1 -32.

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Linda Lobao, Alexandra Tsvetkova, Gregory Hooks, Mark Partridge. Seeing the Local State. Sociology of Development. 2021; ():1-32.

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Linda Lobao; Alexandra Tsvetkova; Gregory Hooks; Mark Partridge. 2021. "Seeing the Local State." Sociology of Development , no. : 1-32.

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Published: 22 June 2020 in Papers in Regional Science
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Institutions are considered one of the fundamental elements of economic growth. We analyze the impact of the feudal landlordship institution on regional economic growth in 19th century Prussia in order to help draw implications for the modern roles of institutions. To measure landlord power, we use three measures of feudal landlordship: landowner concentration, servant population share, and household‐servant population share. These proxies, measured in 1816, are associated with both faster regional population growth and agricultural productivity growth, but no impact on industrialization in the early 19th century. However, in the latter 19th century, these same proxies are associated with delayed industrialization and no influence on regional population. Thus, stronger feudal landlordship was beneficial to regional growth when agriculture was the dominant industry but became detrimental to growth when manufacturing became dominant.

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Seung‐Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. De facto power of elites and regional growth. Papers in Regional Science 2020, 100, 169 -202.

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Seung‐Hun Chung, Mark D. Partridge. De facto power of elites and regional growth. Papers in Regional Science. 2020; 100 (1):169-202.

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Seung‐Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. 2020. "De facto power of elites and regional growth." Papers in Regional Science 100, no. 1: 169-202.

Articles
Published: 27 April 2020 in Regional Studies
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This paper examines whether human capital levels diverged across Chinese cities between 1990 and 2010. By employing a series of instruments for the initial human capital share, consistent positive feedback between current human capital levels on the subsequent growth of human capital in the 2000s is found. The findings are also robust to alternative instrumental variables. Further evidence suggests that a city's industry structure does not explain the positive feedbacks, but rather urban amenities appear to be the primary causal factor. To mitigate large provincial inequality in development, China should mitigate growing differentials in human capital by improving local urban amenities.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Min Zhang; Mark D. Partridge. Positive feedback in skill aggregation across Chinese cities. Regional Studies 2020, 54, 1 -16.

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Seung-Hun Chung, Min Zhang, Mark D. Partridge. Positive feedback in skill aggregation across Chinese cities. Regional Studies. 2020; 54 (11):1-16.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Min Zhang; Mark D. Partridge. 2020. "Positive feedback in skill aggregation across Chinese cities." Regional Studies 54, no. 11: 1-16.

Articles
Published: 30 March 2020 in Regional Studies
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The effects of the concentration of human capital on wages and productivity have been widely studied, but despite their heterogeneity, little attention has been paid to its effects on the wage gap. This paper assesses the impacts of human capital externalities on wages and on the US wage gap. The main results suggest a positive association between the share of high-educated workers and the wage gap between high- and low-educated workers. Moreover, the effect associated with the concentration of high-educated workers is entirely captured by changes in their wages, as wages of low- and medium-educated workers are statistically unaffected.

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Rodrigo Perez-Silva; Mark D. Partridge. Concentration of human capital, externalities and the wage gap in US metro areas. Regional Studies 2020, 54, 1564 -1573.

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Rodrigo Perez-Silva, Mark D. Partridge. Concentration of human capital, externalities and the wage gap in US metro areas. Regional Studies. 2020; 54 (11):1564-1573.

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Rodrigo Perez-Silva; Mark D. Partridge. 2020. "Concentration of human capital, externalities and the wage gap in US metro areas." Regional Studies 54, no. 11: 1564-1573.

Original paper
Published: 06 February 2020 in The Annals of Regional Science
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Studies in the regional innovation literature have largely focused on the role of economic, structural, demographic, and institutional factors, but very few studies shed light on the role of amenities. This paper investigates this question by examining how amenities shape the geography of innovation in China. The empirical results based on city-level data suggest that both natural and consumer amenities are positively associated with regional innovation. Specifically, amenities related to air quality, sunshine, public transportation, educational resources, and healthcare services matter most. Further, the analysis suggests the influence of amenities on innovation is closely linked to city characteristics such as income, density, and human capital. Therefore, to formulate innovation-driven growth, these results suggest that more attention should be paid to the role of amenities and amenity-related strategies should be tailored to city characteristics.

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Min Zhang; Mark D. Partridge; Huasheng Song. Amenities and the geography of innovation: evidence from Chinese cities. The Annals of Regional Science 2020, 65, 105 -145.

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Min Zhang, Mark D. Partridge, Huasheng Song. Amenities and the geography of innovation: evidence from Chinese cities. The Annals of Regional Science. 2020; 65 (1):105-145.

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Min Zhang; Mark D. Partridge; Huasheng Song. 2020. "Amenities and the geography of innovation: evidence from Chinese cities." The Annals of Regional Science 65, no. 1: 105-145.

Correction
Published: 31 October 2019 in The Annals of Regional Science
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The original version of this article was revised due to a retrospective Open Access order.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. Correction to: Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift. The Annals of Regional Science 2019, 63, 517 -517.

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Seung-Hun Chung, Mark D. Partridge. Correction to: Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift. The Annals of Regional Science. 2019; 63 (3):517-517.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. 2019. "Correction to: Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift." The Annals of Regional Science 63, no. 3: 517-517.

Original paper
Published: 27 August 2019 in The Annals of Regional Science
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We examine whether shocks to a city’s average level of human capital are associated with persistent or permanent changes in human capital. The Mariel boatlift of 1980 represents an exogenous negative shock to Miami’s average human capital because it attracted a particularly low-skilled mix of immigrants. To assess whether the boatlift affected Miami’s future human capital accumulation, we construct a synthetic control group to analyze the effect of this shock. The results suggest that the Miami metropolitan area experienced slower increases in average human capital than its synthetic control city after the boatlift. This result is robust to alternative estimation strategies, data sets, and alternative hypotheses. The result implies that a decreased level of average skills tends to subsequently attract unskilled skilled workers more strongly than skilled workers, at least in the context of immigration shocks. We discuss plausible mechanisms for this finding and place the findings into the context of the spatial equilibrium model.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift. The Annals of Regional Science 2019, 63, 461 -515.

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Seung-Hun Chung, Mark D. Partridge. Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift. The Annals of Regional Science. 2019; 63 (3):461-515.

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Seung-Hun Chung; Mark D. Partridge. 2019. "Are shocks to human capital composition permanent? Evidence from the Mariel boatlift." The Annals of Regional Science 63, no. 3: 461-515.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2018 in Resources Policy
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Many U.S. towns reportedly boomed after new technologies in oil and gas extraction led to rapid development of shale resources. Recent research on the expected economic impact mainly focused on the employment effects associated with new oil and gas jobs. Instead, our focus is on the impact of oil and gas industry growth on local earnings while paying attention to the spatial and sectoral effects and assessing whether an increase in earnings due to energy development seeps out due to the peculiarities of the industry. Our estimation results suggest that oil and gas earnings multipliers are modest and similar to oil and gas employment multipliers, with relatively large shares of the earnings leaving the county on average. Likewise, oil and gas multipliers tend to be smaller or comparable to the estimated multipliers for equal-sized shocks in the rest of the economy, suggesting that oil and gas is not a special industry case. Given the high wages in the sector (and potentially large royalty payments), these results may be surprising.

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Amanda L. Weinstein; Mark D. Partridge; Alexandra Tsvetkova. Follow the money: Aggregate, sectoral and spatial effects of an energy boom on local earnings. Resources Policy 2018, 55, 196 -209.

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Amanda L. Weinstein, Mark D. Partridge, Alexandra Tsvetkova. Follow the money: Aggregate, sectoral and spatial effects of an energy boom on local earnings. Resources Policy. 2018; 55 ():196-209.

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Amanda L. Weinstein; Mark D. Partridge; Alexandra Tsvetkova. 2018. "Follow the money: Aggregate, sectoral and spatial effects of an energy boom on local earnings." Resources Policy 55, no. : 196-209.

Journal article
Published: 16 February 2018 in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
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To set the stage for future research aimed at developing public policies that support economic prosperity in rural areas, we review the current economic conditions of rural America and the current literature. Rural America is often characterized as a uniform, distressed place where agriculture dominates. In fact, rural America is diverse, with many regions doing well economically. In some areas, labor-saving technologies have reduced the workforce in manufacturing and resource-dependent industries. However, integration with urban areas has weakened the economic divide between urban and some rural areas, while natural amenities have boosted the fortunes of others. There is also evidence that homegrown enterprises can support growth even in the most remote, distressed regions. To support economic growth, policies should recognize the unique features of each place or region and balance the farm sector with the larger nonfarm rural economy. Economists are well-positioned to provide research-based evidence of what works, as well as rigorous evaluation of new polices.

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Stephan Goetz; Mark D Partridge; Heather Stephens. The Economic Status of Rural America in the President Trump Era and beyond. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2018, 40, 97 -118.

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Stephan Goetz, Mark D Partridge, Heather Stephens. The Economic Status of Rural America in the President Trump Era and beyond. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 2018; 40 (1):97-118.

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Stephan Goetz; Mark D Partridge; Heather Stephens. 2018. "The Economic Status of Rural America in the President Trump Era and beyond." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 40, no. 1: 97-118.

Preprint
Published: 01 January 2017
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Market access/potential are main explanations for spatial variation in economic activity. Past research has recently used the quasi-natural experiment of the imposition and removal of Iron Curtain to assess how changes in market access influenced economic outcomes. Rather, we focus on key quantity effects of market access by tracking population changes induced by the creation of a subnational border. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment in China and use a difference-in-difference identification strategy to estimate the effects of introducing a new border when Sichuan province was split into Chongqing and Sichuan in 1997. We find that the new border has negative population effects on Sichuan counties located near the new border. These counties experienced a substantial decline in population growth after 1997 compared to Sichuan counties farther from the border, with the negative effects mainly confined to a band within 50-100 kilometers to the new border. Further investigation with falsification tests found that such border effects are unique to the new border region and are not related to the new Sichuan border region being more rural or to being on any provincial border.

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Mark D. Partridge; Benjian Yang; Anping Chen. Do Border Effects Alter Regional Development: Evidence from China. 2017, 1 .

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Mark D. Partridge, Benjian Yang, Anping Chen. Do Border Effects Alter Regional Development: Evidence from China. . 2017; ():1.

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Mark D. Partridge; Benjian Yang; Anping Chen. 2017. "Do Border Effects Alter Regional Development: Evidence from China." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2016 in Energy Economics
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The U.S. shale boom has intensified interest in how the expanding oil and gas sector affects local economic performance. Research has produced mixed results and has not compared how energy shocks differ from equal-sized shocks elsewhere in the economy. What emerges is that the estimated impacts of energy development vary by region, empirical methodology, as well as the time horizon that is considered. This paper captures these dimensions to present a more complete picture of energy boomtowns. Utilizing US county data, we estimate the effects of changes in oil and gas extraction employment on total employment growth as well as growth by sector. We compare this to the effects of equal-sized shocks in the rest of the economy to assess whether energy booms are inherently different. The analysis is performed separately for nonmetropolitan and metropolitan counties using instrumental variables. We difference over 1-, 3-, 6-, and 10-year time periods to account for county fixed effects and to assess responses across different time horizons. The results show that in nonmetro counties, energy sector multiplier effects on total county employment first increase up to 6-year horizons and then decline for 10-year horizons. We also observe positive spillovers to the nontraded goods sector, while spillovers are small or negative for traded goods. In metro counties, there are no significant effects on total employment although positive spillovers a present in some sectors. Yet, equal-sized shocks in the rest of the economy produce more jobs on average than oil and gas shocks, suggesting that policymakers should seek more diversified development.

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Alexandra Tsvetkova; Mark D. Partridge. Economics of modern energy boomtowns: Do oil and gas shocks differ from shocks in the rest of the economy? Energy Economics 2016, 59, 81 -95.

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Alexandra Tsvetkova, Mark D. Partridge. Economics of modern energy boomtowns: Do oil and gas shocks differ from shocks in the rest of the economy? Energy Economics. 2016; 59 ():81-95.

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Alexandra Tsvetkova; Mark D. Partridge. 2016. "Economics of modern energy boomtowns: Do oil and gas shocks differ from shocks in the rest of the economy?" Energy Economics 59, no. : 81-95.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in Regional Science and Urban Economics
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Local labor markets are most flexible and aggregate natural unemployment is reduced when there is sufficient interregional economic migration to ensure workers are reallocated from declining to expanding regions. Local European labor markets have generally been viewed as not as flexible as those in North America, leading to greater fluctuations in local wages, labor force participation and unemployment rates, and smaller changes in local employment as economic shocks are primarily experienced by the local area’s original residents. France is an interesting case. French gross migration rates—though perhaps relatively low—are higher today than a generation ago. Using a host of novel identification approaches and French employment zone data dating back to the early 1980s, we investigate whether these changes correspond to economic migration that would increase labor market flexibility. Our results detect surprising amounts of economic migration in that most new jobs are eventually taken by new migrants or outside commuters. We then reconcile these somewhat surprising findings with the still relatively low contemporary French interregional gross migration rates, concluding that other structural impediments besides relative local labor market inflexibility are behind relatively poor labor market performance.

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Cécile Détang-Dessendre; Mark D. Partridge; Virginie Piguet. Local labor market flexibility in a perceived low migration country: The case of French labor markets. Regional Science and Urban Economics 2016, 58, 89 -103.

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Cécile Détang-Dessendre, Mark D. Partridge, Virginie Piguet. Local labor market flexibility in a perceived low migration country: The case of French labor markets. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 2016; 58 ():89-103.

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Cécile Détang-Dessendre; Mark D. Partridge; Virginie Piguet. 2016. "Local labor market flexibility in a perceived low migration country: The case of French labor markets." Regional Science and Urban Economics 58, no. : 89-103.

Book chapter
Published: 07 August 2015 in The Economics of Cultural Diversity
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Michael R. Betz; M. Rose Olfert; Mark D. Partridge; Peter Nijkamp; Jacques Poot; Jessie Bakens. Canada’s multiculturalism and domestic migration. The Economics of Cultural Diversity 2015, 147 -172.

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Michael R. Betz, M. Rose Olfert, Mark D. Partridge, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Jessie Bakens. Canada’s multiculturalism and domestic migration. The Economics of Cultural Diversity. 2015; ():147-172.

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Michael R. Betz; M. Rose Olfert; Mark D. Partridge; Peter Nijkamp; Jacques Poot; Jessie Bakens. 2015. "Canada’s multiculturalism and domestic migration." The Economics of Cultural Diversity , no. : 147-172.

Journal article
Published: 21 May 2015 in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
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Urban agglomeration will face major challenges in the future, such as demographic change, climate change and other structural megatrends, as well present turbulences of economic insecurity, financial deficits and social disorder, all of which might have long-term effects. Cities will need to improve and to maximize their quality of urban life so as to keep pace with rapidly changing global urban patterns. Such a goal calls not only for new technologies, but also for proactive and open-minded governance models and management techniques that include all actors in order to realize the concept of a sustainable city in a globalized world. The aims of this paper are: to map out the complex force field of urban dynamics; to identify the main drivers of urban evolution; and to explore promising land-use planning, infrastructural, cultural, economic and knowledge-based policy initiatives that may enhance the sustainable growth potential of modern (mega-) cities.

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Karima Kourtit; Peter Nijkamp; Mark D. Partridge. Challenges of the New Urban World. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 2015, 8, 199 -215.

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Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Mark D. Partridge. Challenges of the New Urban World. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 2015; 8 (3):199-215.

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Karima Kourtit; Peter Nijkamp; Mark D. Partridge. 2015. "Challenges of the New Urban World." Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 8, no. 3: 199-215.

Journal article
Published: 05 March 2015 in Papers in Regional Science
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Regional policy-makers have long sought to attract highly-educated workers with a view to stimulating economic growth and vibrancy. Previous studies over the decades leading up to the new millennium show human capital divergence across cities, where the share of college graduates grew faster in cities that had larger initial shares of college-educated workers. However, labour markets have changed significantly post-2000, likely affecting migration decisions of highly-skilled workers. Additionally, past studies have not controlled for important changes in industry education levels and overall industry composition that may influence city-level college graduate growth. We use detailed 4-digit NAICS industry employment data combined with public micro-data to construct measures of industry skill upgrading and changes in industry composition to control for their effects on human capital growth. We find agglomeration forces, rather than initial graduate share, explains college-graduate share growth post-2000. We also decompose graduates into bachelors and postgraduate degree holders to determine whether different forces are at play on growth of graduates at different education levels. 地域政策当局は、経済成長の促進と活性化を狙って、長期にわたり高学歴労働者を引き付ける政策を模索してきた。西暦2000年までの数十年の間に行われた研究は、都市間の人的資本の多様性を明らかにした。当初から大卒労働者の割合の高い都市では大卒生のシェアは早く増大する。しかし、2000年代に入り労働市場は大きく変貌し、その変化が高度技能労働者の移住意思決定に影響を与える可能性が高い。さらに、従来の研究では、都市レベルでの大学卒業生の増加に影響を与える可能性がある、産業の教育レベルならびに産業の全体的な構成における重要な変化がコントロールされていなかった。我々は、人的資本成長に対する効果をコントロールするため、公開されているミクロデータと組み合わせた詳細な、NAICSコード4桁の産業分類の雇用データを使って、産業の技能向上と産業構成の変化に関する指標を構築した。当初の大学卒業生のシェアではなく集積力が2000年代の大学卒業生のシェア増加を説明することが示された。さらに我々は、大学卒業生を学部卒と大学院卒に分類して、学歴の異なる卒業生の増加には様々な要因の作用が存在するかどうかを検討した。 Los formuladores de políticas regionales han tratado por mucho tiempo de atraer a trabajadores altamente cualificados con el fin de estimular el crecimiento económico y la vitalidad. Los estudios previos en las décadas anteriores al nuevo milenio muestran una divergencia en el capital humano por ciudades, según la cual la proporción de graduados universitarios crece más rápido en las ciudades con tasas iniciales mayores de trabajadores con educación universitaria. Sin embargo, los mercados de trabajo han cambiado significativamente después del año 2000, lo que probablemente ha afectado a las decisiones de migración de trabajadores altamente cualificados. Además, los estudios anteriores no han controlado los cambios importantes en los niveles de educación de la industria y la composición general de la industria que podrían influir en el crecimiento de graduados universitarios en cada ciudad. Se utilizan datos detallados NAICS de 4 dígitos del empleo en industrias combinados con microdatos públicos para el desarrollo de medidas de actualización de las cualificaciones en las industrias y de cambios en la composición de las industrias para el control de sus efectos sobre el crecimiento del capital humano. Se encontró que las fuerzas de aglomeración, en vez de las tasas iniciales de graduados, explicaron el crecimiento de la distribución de graduados universitarios posterior al año 2000. También se desagregaron los graduados de licenciatura y de posgrado para determinar si hay diferentes fuerzas en juego en el crecimiento de los graduados en función de los diferentes niveles de educación.

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Michael R. Betz; Mark D. Partridge; Belal Fallah. Smart cities and attracting knowledge workers: Which cities attract highly-educated workers in the 21st century? Papers in Regional Science 2015, 95, 819 -841.

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Michael R. Betz, Mark D. Partridge, Belal Fallah. Smart cities and attracting knowledge workers: Which cities attract highly-educated workers in the 21st century? Papers in Regional Science. 2015; 95 (4):819-841.

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Michael R. Betz; Mark D. Partridge; Belal Fallah. 2015. "Smart cities and attracting knowledge workers: Which cities attract highly-educated workers in the 21st century?" Papers in Regional Science 95, no. 4: 819-841.

Journal article
Published: 12 January 2015 in Journal of Regional Science
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The financial crisis of 2008 not only started the Great Recession, but also set off fundamental changes in production processes, government fiscal practices, and housing. Technological progress has enabled firms to outsource and offshore parts of the production process, leading to a fragmentation of global value chains. We briefly discuss this “second unbundling,” global versus regional fragmentation and some of the consequences that became visible during the Great Recession's trade collapse. We discuss the consequences for some local clusters, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, and some consequences for government fiscal health and housing from an American perspective.

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Steven Brakman; Charles Van Marrewijk; Mark Partridge. LOCAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES. Journal of Regional Science 2015, 55, 1 -9.

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Steven Brakman, Charles Van Marrewijk, Mark Partridge. LOCAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES. Journal of Regional Science. 2015; 55 (1):1-9.

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Steven Brakman; Charles Van Marrewijk; Mark Partridge. 2015. "LOCAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES." Journal of Regional Science 55, no. 1: 1-9.

Preprint
Published: 01 January 2015
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Despite the attention given to international trade in discussion of the economic struggles of many U.S. regions, it is unclear whether international trade shocks impact local economies more, or differently, than shocks originating within the domestic economy. A challenge in making this discernment is separating trade shocks from common or domestic shocks. Therefore, using U.S. county-level data for 1990-2010, this study carefully constructs shocks to local economies, isolating those arising from international imports and exports to assess whether trade shocks have different effects from domestic shocks. In confirmatory analysis, we also employ a novel combination of IV and matching strategies. We examine a variety of indicators including employment growth, population growth, employment rates, wage rates and poverty rates. The results suggest that international trade shocks have some different effects than overall domestic shocks, though likely less than commonly perceived. We also find that domestic shocks dominate international trade shocks in explaining variation in regional labor market outcomes.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman; M. Rose Olfert; Ying Tan. International Trade and Local Labor Markets: Do Foreign and Domestic Shocks Affect Regions Differently? 2015, 1 .

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Mark D. Partridge, Dan S. Rickman, M. Rose Olfert, Ying Tan. International Trade and Local Labor Markets: Do Foreign and Domestic Shocks Affect Regions Differently? . 2015; ():1.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman; M. Rose Olfert; Ying Tan. 2015. "International Trade and Local Labor Markets: Do Foreign and Domestic Shocks Affect Regions Differently?" , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 05 December 2014 in Economic Development Quarterly
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The strong U.S. real income gains and reductions in poverty during the 1990s were largely erased in the following decade, which contained two economic recessions and tepid job growth otherwise. Areas most affected by weak U.S. economic performance could be expected to also have experienced the largest increases in poverty, particularly if interregional labor market adjustment diminished during the decade. We examine this issue, finding that not only was regional poverty affected by regional labor demand shocks, the effect was stronger post-2000. Consistent with the poverty results are findings of greater post-2000 regional labor demand effects on employment rates and reduced population adjustments to asymmetric labor demand shocks.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman; Ying Tan; M. Rose Olfert. U.S. Regional Poverty Post-2000. Economic Development Quarterly 2014, 29, 38 -48.

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Mark D. Partridge, Dan S. Rickman, Ying Tan, M. Rose Olfert. U.S. Regional Poverty Post-2000. Economic Development Quarterly. 2014; 29 (1):38-48.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman; Ying Tan; M. Rose Olfert. 2014. "U.S. Regional Poverty Post-2000." Economic Development Quarterly 29, no. 1: 38-48.

Book
Published: 16 December 2013 in Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics
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Two largely separate literatures exist on regional economic development and land use economics. This article argues that a full understanding of each of the two areas requires greater knowledge of their interrelationship. It reviews key studies of the two literatures, particularly those related to the close interconnectedness of regional economic development and land use. It contends that a critical shortcoming in the literatures is that key features that affect both land use and economic activity are typically not systematically considered. It then posits that the spatial equilibrium framework is especially suited for understanding the various feedback mechanisms that affect both. Also particularly promising are the increased availability of geographical information system data and microdata, as well as recent methodological advances in empirical estimation and modeling.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics 2013, 1 .

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Mark D. Partridge, Dan S. Rickman. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics. Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics. 2013; ():1.

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Mark D. Partridge; Dan S. Rickman. 2013. "Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics." Integrating Regional Economic Development Analysis and Land Use Economics , no. : 1.