Does a Rising Tide Lift All Metropolitan Boats? Assessing Poverty Dynamics by Metropolitan Size and County Type

Authors: PARTRIDGE, MARK D.¹; RICKMAN, DAN S.²

Source: Growth and Change, Volume 39, Number 2, June 2008 , pp. 283-312(30)

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Abstract:

This paper examines the relationship between U.S. metropolitan county employment growth and poverty. Differential job growth-poverty linkages are found across metropolitan size and type of county. Own-county employment growth significantly reduces central-county poverty in large metropolitan areas relative to suburban county poverty. Compared with larger metropolitan areas, broader metropolitan-wide job growth has more poverty reducing benefits in medium and smaller metropolitan areas, suggesting fewer metropolitan-wide job-accessibility constraints. The results suggest that targeted place-based efforts to spur job growth may help reduce poverty.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.2008.00420.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, the Ohio State University., Email: partridge.27@osu.edu 2: Department of Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater., Email: dan.rickman@okstate.edu

Publication date: 2008-06-01