Do jobs follow people or people follow jobs? A meta-analysis of Carlino–Mills studies

Gerke J. Hoogstra; Jouke van Dijk; Raymond J.G.M. Florax

doi:10.1080/17421772.2017.1340663

Do jobs follow people or people follow jobs? A meta-analysis of Carlino–Mills studies

Gerke J. Hoogstra^*, Jouke van Dijk, Raymond J.G.M. Florax

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Do jobs follow people or people follow jobs? A meta-analysis of Carlino–Mills studies. Spatial Economic Analysis. This study examines the classic question as to whether ‘jobs follow people’ or ‘people follow jobs’ by performing a meta-analysis of 321 results from 64 Carlino–Mills studies. It is found that the results are highly divergent, but that more results point towards ‘jobs following people’ than towards ‘people following jobs’. When it comes to the reasons for the variation in results, we find that the results are mostly shaped by the geographical location, spatial resolution, and population and employment characteristics present in the data, as well as by the model’s specification, its functional form and the spatial weight matrix specification.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	357-378
Number of pages	22
Journal	Spatial Economic Analysis
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2017.1340663
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2017

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adjustment model
Carlino–Mills model
jobs–people causality
meta-analysis
Population–employment interaction
simultaneous equations

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