#10036. Characterizing the Regional Structure in the United States: A County-based Analysis of Labor Market Centrality

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Abstract:
Categorizing places based on their network connections to other places in the region reveals not only population concentration but also economic dynamics that are missed in other typologies. The US Office of Management and Budget categorization of counties into metropolitan/micropolitan and central/outlying is widely seen as insufficient for many analytic purposes. In this article, we use a coreness index from network analysis to identify labor market centrality of a county. We use county-to-county commute flows, including internal commuting, to identify regional hierarchies.
Keywords:
economic growth and development; human resources; human spatial structure; labor force; methods; network analysis; policy and applications; population and employment distribution; spatial analysis; spatial structure; urban and regional economic development; urban and regional spatial structure

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