IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea01/20767.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Determinants of Population Change in Regional Economies: A Study of the Colorado Front Range

Author

Listed:
  • Scorsone, Eric
  • Thilmany, Dawn D.
  • Davies, Stephen P.

Abstract

Households and businesses are distributed across regional economies based on a number of factors including location-specific natural and fiscal amenities and local and regional employment conditions. Very different hypotheses are proposed in past research to explain the determinants of this spatial distribution. In particular, it is argued that households must weigh the benefits of potential amenities against the costs of employment losses, lower wages or higher housing prices. The relative strength of these two categories determines the potential for government intervention in the market. This research project analyzes this issue in the specific case of the Denver labor market area. This region has experienced large swings in economic activity over the past decade, but more recently, has been one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States. As growth occurs, the role of fiscal amenities in this process needs to be understood since governments may inhibit, promote or have no effect on regional population and employment growth.

Suggested Citation

  • Scorsone, Eric & Thilmany, Dawn D. & Davies, Stephen P., 2001. "Determinants of Population Change in Regional Economies: A Study of the Colorado Front Range," 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL 20767, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea01:20767
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20767
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20767/files/sp01sc01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.20767?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Deitz, Richard, 1998. "A Joint Model of Residential and Employment Location in Urban Areas," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 197-215, September.
    2. Paul Krugman, 1998. "Space: The Final Frontier," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 12(2), pages 161-174, Spring.
    3. Henderson, Jason R. & McDaniel, Kendall, 2000. "The Impact Of Scenic Amenities On Rural Employment Growth," 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL 21725, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    4. Vijay K. Mathur & Sheldon H. Stein, 1991. "A Dynamic Interregional Theory of Migration and Population Growth," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 67(3), pages 292-298.
    5. Greenwood, Michael J. & Stock, Richard, 1990. "Patterns of change in the intrametropolitan location of population, jobs, and housing: 1950 to 1980," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 243-276, September.
    6. Steinnes, Donald N., 1977. "Causality and intraurban location," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 4(1), pages 69-79, January.
    7. Barkley, David L. & Henry, Mark S. & Bao, Shuming, 1998. "The Role of Local School Quality in Rural Employment and Population Growth," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 28(1), pages 81-102, Summer.
    8. Greenwood, Michael J, 1980. "Metropolitan Growth and the Intrametropolitan Location of Employment, Housing, and Labor Force," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 62(4), pages 491-501, November.
    9. William Levemier & Brian Cushing, 1994. "A New Look at the Determinants of the Intrametropolitan Distribution of Population and Employment," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 31(8), pages 1391-1405, October.
    10. Greenwood, Michael J. & Hunt, Gary L., 1989. "Jobs versus amenities in the analysis of metropolitan migration," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 1-16, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Wouter Vermeulen & Jos van Ommeren, 2007. "Does Land Use Planning shape Regional Economies?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 08-004/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    2. Vermeulen, Wouter & van Ommeren, Jos, 2009. "Does land use planning shape regional economies? A simultaneous analysis of housing supply, internal migration and local employment growth in the Netherlands," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 294-310, December.
    3. Jessie Bakens & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "Immigrant Heterogeneity and Urban Development: A Conceptual Analysis," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Riccardo Crescenzi & Marco Percoco (ed.), Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance, edition 127, pages 381-396, Springer.
    4. Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod & Daniel Liviano-Solís, 2012. "Migration Determinants at a Local Level," ERSA conference papers ersa12p500, European Regional Science Association.
    5. Wouter Vermeulen & J. van Ommeren, 2006. "Housing supply and the interaction of regional population and employment," CPB Discussion Paper 65.rdf, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    6. repec:rri:wpaper:200711 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. William Levemier & Brian Cushing, 1994. "A New Look at the Determinants of the Intrametropolitan Distribution of Population and Employment," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 31(8), pages 1391-1405, October.
    8. Gebremeskel Gebremariam, 2007. "Modeling Small Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services and Household Income in Appalachia: A Spatial Simultaneous Equations Approach," Working Papers Working Paper 2007-03, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.
    9. Gebremeskel Gebremariam & Tesfa Gebremedhin & Peter Schaeffer & Tim Phipps & Randall Jackson, 2007. "A Spatial Panel Simultaneous-Equations Model of Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services and Household Income in Appalachia," Working Papers Working Paper 2007-11, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.
    10. Wouter Vermeulen & J. van Ommeren, 2006. "Housing supply and the interaction of regional population and employment," CPB Discussion Paper 65, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    11. repec:rri:wpaper:200710 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Deitz, Richard, 1998. "A Joint Model of Residential and Employment Location in Urban Areas," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 197-215, September.
    13. Jangik Jin & Danya Kim, 2018. "Expansion of the subway network and spatial distribution of population and employment in the Seoul metropolitan area," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(11), pages 2499-2521, August.
    14. Jae Kim & Geoffrey Hewings, 2012. "Integrating the fragmented regional and subregional socioeconomic forecasting and analysis: a spatial regional econometric input–output framework," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 49(2), pages 485-513, October.
    15. Marlon G. Boarnet & Saksith Chalermpong & Elizabeth Geho, 2005. "Specification issues in models of population and employment growth," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 84(1), pages 21-46, March.
    16. David C. Maré & Andrew Coleman, 2011. "Patterns of business location in Auckland," Working Papers 11_08, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    17. Wouter Vermeulen & Jos van Ommeren, 2004. "Interaction of Regional Population and Employment," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 04-083/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    18. Josep María Arauzo, 2002. "Determinants Of Population And Jobs At A Local Level: An Application For Catalan Municipalities," Working Papers. Serie EC 2002-25, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
    19. Thomas J. Nechyba & Randall P. Walsh, 2004. "Urban Sprawl," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 18(4), pages 177-200, Fall.
    20. Jens Abildtrup & Virginie Piguet & Bertrand Schmitt, 2011. "The impact of agro-food industry on employment and population changes: The case of Denmark and France'," ERSA conference papers ersa10p1622, European Regional Science Association.
    21. R.W. Vickerman, 1984. "Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 21(1), pages 15-29, February.
    22. repec:rri:wpaper:200703 is not listed on IDEAS
    23. Gebremeskel Gebremariam & Tesfa Gebremedhin & Peter Schaeffer & Randall Jackson & Tim Phipps, 2007. "An Empirical Analysis of Employment, Migration, Local Public Services and Regional Income Growth in Appalachia," Working Papers Working Paper 2007-10, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Community/Rural/Urban Development;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea01:20767. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.