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Essays On Agglomeration Trends In The U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1988-2003, Abdullah Mahbuzzaman Khan
Essays On Agglomeration Trends In The U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1988-2003, Abdullah Mahbuzzaman Khan
Economics Dissertations
This dissertation consists of two essays dealing with the trends in industrial agglomeration and changes in the influence of micro-determinants of agglomeration due to globalization in the U.S. manufacturing agglomeration and the second essay discusses the impact of globalization on the micro-determinants of agglomeration. The first essay explores recent agglomeration trends in the U.S. manufacturing industries between 1988 and 2003 using employment and employment-based agglomeration measures such as Ellison-Glaeser Index and Gini index, and using Herfindahl index as a measure of industrial concentration due to scale economies. Between 1988 and 2003, forty two states lost and eight states gained manufacturing …