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Deriving Empirical Definitions Of Spatial Labor Markets: The Roles Of Competing Versus Complementary Growth

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Khan, Romana
Orazem, Peter F.
Otto, Dan

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Rural communities compete with each other for firms, but their residents often commute large distances to work. Consequently, rural communities can benefit from economic growth occurring as much as 50 miles away. Data on county population growth shows that counties benefit from growth one or two counties away.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT with number 21007.

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Keywords: Labor and Human Capital;

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