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Occupation Analysis For The Greater Cleveland Area, Jun Koo
Occupation Analysis For The Greater Cleveland Area, Jun Koo
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
Occupation is an important aspect of regional economy; it has been forgotten, however, in most studies of regional economies. We developed a set of benchmark occupation clusters that share similar knowledge and skills and examined the Cleveland metropolitan area based on the derived occupation clusters.
Employment Centers In The Akron, Cleveland And Youngstown Metropolitan Areas, Robert Sadowski
Employment Centers In The Akron, Cleveland And Youngstown Metropolitan Areas, Robert Sadowski
All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications
What is an employment center? McMillen (2003) defines an employment center as a “concentration of firms large enough to have significant effects on the overall spatial distribution of population, employment, and land prices.” Bogart (1998) sees employment centers as a collection of small open economies in a metropolitan area that specialize and trade with each other. Technically speaking, an employment center is a geographic area that exceeds a threshold employment density (employees per square mile) and a threshold employment level.