Industry churning and the evolution of cities : Evidence for Germany
Industry churning and the evolution of cities : Evidence for Germany
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Journal of Urban Economics ; 64 (2008), 2. - pp. 326-339. - ISSN 0094-1190. - eISSN 1095-9068
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In this paper we show that the recent model by Gilles Duranton [Duranton, G., 2007. Urban evolutions: The fast, the slow, and the still. American Economic Review 97, 197–221] performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the “churning” of industries across cities. Little is known in urban economics about the determinants of local industry turnover so far. We present an empirical analysis of the excess churning index for West German cities, which describes the strength of intra-city industry reallocations over time. We find that urban growth and industry turnover are not notably correlated: Some, but not all fast-growing cities have notably changed. Secondly, human capital is positively related to growth and turnover, but only among successful cities. Industrial change within unsuccessful cities is driven by the disappearance of old-fashioned and declining sectors such as agriculture or mining. On a more general level our results suggest that the recent model by Duranton is a powerful description of the urban growth process. Still there are some aspects that are not captured by that model, which are at the core of other theories of urban growth.
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Industry turnover, Urban growth, Structural change, Churning, City size distribution, Zipf's law
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FINDEISEN, Sebastian, Jens SÜDEKUM, 2008. Industry churning and the evolution of cities : Evidence for Germany. In: Journal of Urban Economics. 64(2), pp. 326-339. ISSN 0094-1190. eISSN 1095-9068. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.jue.2008.02.003BibTex
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