The Employment Effects of New Business Formation: A Regional Perspective

摘要：

This paper seeks to examine spatially varying relationships between new firm formation and employment growth across U.S.A. counties. The existing empirical evidence does not provide consistent conclusions of the effect of new business formation on employment growth. The regional effects of new firm formation on employment growth are examined and emphasized in this paper. It is hypothesized and tested that there are different relationships between new firm formation and employment growth across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. The global employment effects of new business formation in metro counties are larger than those in nonmetro counties. Geographically Weighted Regression model is calibrated with county-level data to identify the spatially varying relationships across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. The GWR approach complements the traditional global regression approach by clarifying how the spatial distribution of local relationships may determine the signs and statistical significance of global estimation.

关键词： Employment change GWR New firm formation Metro counties Nonmetro counties

作者: Huaqun Li Shaoming Cheng Kingsley E. Haynes

作者单位: School of Public Policy at George Mason University, Fairfax VA, 22030 Department of Public Administration, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, U.S.A.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)

会议地点: 澳大利亚堪培拉

会议语种:英文

页码: 131-143

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）