State Infrastructure and the Geography of Employment
State Infrastructure and the Geography of Employment
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国家基础设施和就业地理
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2257.1999.tb00045.x
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
A. Haughwout
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作者：
A. Haughwout
国家公共资本投资对经济增长的影响是一个重要的问题，也是近年来大量研究的焦点。但大多数研究都忽略了这些投资对国内经济活动模式的影响。然而，如果外部集聚经济是增长的重要决定因素，那么投资可能通过促进或抑制集聚而间接影响增长。本文讨论了国家基础设施投资对国家内部就业分布的影响，以及这些空间效应对国家总就业增长的影响。初步的实证结果表明，国家基础设施投资往往会将增长从就业密集的地区重新分配到国家的其他地区。这种再分配可能会减少城市提供的聚集效益，这有可能降低州的增长。本文最后讨论了研究和政策的工作的影响。
The effects of state public capital investment on economic growth is an important question that has been the focus of a recent substantial research effort. But the majority of this research has ignored these investments’influence on the intra-state pattern of economic activity. Yet if external agglomeration economies are important determinants of growth, then investments may indirectly affect growth by fostering or discouraging agglomeration. This paper discusses the effect of state infrastructure investments on the distribution of employment within states and the implications of these spatial effects for aggregate state employment growth. Preliminary empirical results suggest that state infrastructure investments tend to redistribute growth from areas of dense employment to other parts of the state. This redistribution may diminish agglomeration benefits offered by cities, which has the potential to reduce state growth. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications of the work for research and policy.