History, Concepts and Politics of Local & Regional Economic Development |
Sep 6: Course Introduction |
[introductions of instructor and students; format and themes of course; short lecture on flexible economic development planning; introduction of Assignments and picking groups and case studies] |
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Sep 8: Key Concepts |
Crane, R., and M. Manville (2008): People or Place? Revisiting the Who Versus the Where of Urban Development," Lincoln Land Lines, 20(2), 1-6. [move to place]
Flammang, R. A. 1979. “Economic growth and economic development: Counterparts or competitors?” Economic Development and Cultural Change 28, 47-62
Fitzgerald, Joan and Nancey Green Leigh. 2002. “Introduction” and “Redefining the Field of Local Economic Development.” In Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. London: Sage Publications.
Barca, F., P. McCann, and A. Rodriguez-Pose (2012): The Case for Regional Development Intervention: Place-based versus Place-neutral Approaches.," Journal of Regional Science, 52(1), 134-152.
see also:
Glaeser, E. L. (1996): Why Economists Still Like Cities," City Journal, 6(2), 70-77.
Glaeser, E.L. (2005), Should the Government Rebuild New Orleans, Or Just Give Residents Checks? The Economist's Voice, Vol 2(4).
Mier, Robert. Metaphors of Economic Development, in Bingham, Richard D., and Robert Mier, eds. 1993. Theories of Local Economic Development. Newbury Park: Sage. (Chapter 14, pp. 284-304).
Wolman, Harold, and David Spitzley. "The Politics of Local Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 115-150.
Brooks, Nancy. Teaching Urban Economics to Planners and the Role of Urban Planning to Economists. in Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning." Oxford Handbooks Online. [accessible through UM Library online] |
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Finding Useful And interesting Data on Local and regional Economies (Sources, Units of Analysis, Variables, Implications) |
Sep 13: Where are the Numbers? Finding Economic Data at the Local and Regional Levels |
Please explore these various sources for data on cities and regions. Looking ahead to Assignments 1-3 and think about what data sources and variables will help you for each assignment. As you explore, think about the differences based on:
1. source of data: government, non-profit, private
2. focus of data: labor, demographic, business, etc.
3. unit of analysis: individual, hhd, family, firm, geography (e.g., city), organization (e.g., non-profit), etc.
4. geography of data: e.g., is the data organized by geography? (e.g., a list of the 100 largest cities; unemployment by state, etc.) does the data have a geo-code? (e.g., an address for a firm?)
5. access to data: is it free? Or for a fee? (And does UM have a subscription?)
6. frequency of data: is it annual? every 10 years (the decennial census); every five years (the Economic Census), etc.
see also:
Cities Alliance: Understanding Your Local Economy: A Resource Guide For Cities
Telling Stories with Numbers (a brief talk given to the Agora Journal) |
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Sep 20: Finding Data (first part of class); Strategies to Read and Critique Economic Impact Studies (second part of class) |
First 30 minutes of class  discussion of "Data Scavenger Hunt" answers -- click here to access the google document.
remainder of class: Strategies to Read and Critique Economic Impact Studies
please read these two economic impact studies. (We will collectively discuss and critique the studies to get ideas about how to do Assignment Zero. Please also read the guidelines to Assignment Zero):
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Sep 22 Student Group Presentations: Critiquing Methods and Claims found in Economic Development Studies |
Presentations of the (ungraded) Assignment Zero (click here for instructions)
(assignment moved from Sept 20). |
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PLACES: PUTTING THE LOCAL IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
Sep 27: Case Studies of Local Economies |
Orum, Anthony and Joe Feagin. “A Tale of Two Cases” in Feagin et. al., eds. A Case for the Case Study (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991) Ch.3.
Putnam, Robert D. "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life." The American Prospect, Vol. 4, No. 13, March 21, 1993, pp. 35-42.
Galster, George. 2012. Metropolitan Portraits : Driving Detroit : The Quest for Respect in the Motor City. Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [ebrary] [chapter 9]
Zimbalist, Andrew. 2010. Circling the Bases : Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press. [ebrary] [chapters 6 and 7]
see also:
Porter, Michael. "New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 11-27.
Harrison, Bennett and Amy K. Glasmeier "Response: Why Business Alone Won't Redevelop the Inner City: A Friendly Critique of Michael Porter's Approach to Urban Revitalization." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 28-38.
Blair, John P., and Michael C. Carroll. 2007. Inner-city neighborhoods and metropolitan development. Economic Development Quarterly 21 (3):263-277.
Sen, Amartya Kumar. 1999. Development as freedom. 1st. ed. New York: Knopf. (Ch. 2).
Ong, Paul, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, eds. 2006. Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press. [ebrary] |
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Sep 29: Location, Distance, Density: Understanding Location & Relocation Decisions among Firms |
Krugman, Paul. "Localization," in Geography and Trade. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1991, pp. 35-67.
Rice, P. (2011): Economic Rationale for Spatial Policies or `Why Place Matters'," Discussion paper, Regeneration and Economic Development Analysis Expert Panel, Department for Communities and Local Government.
Rae, Douglas W. 2003. City : Urbanism and Its End. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press. [ebrary] [preface and chapters 1-4]
for background on location theory, see also:
Porter, Michael. 2000. Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy. Economic Development Quarterly Vol. 14 No. 1, February, 15-34.
Alonso, William. "Location Theory," in Regional Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975, pp. 35-63.
The Four Classical Traditions in Location Theory • "On Location" (Prof. Krumme's great site at the U. of Washington)
Individual Location Decisions (Ch 2), from Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani, An Introduction to Regional Economics (on-line edition) |
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Oct 4: Student Presentations |
• Assignment 1: Place Analysis |
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SECTORS: Approaching Economic Development through INDUSTRIES (as a unit of analysis and policy) |
Oct 6: Introduction to Sectoral Analysis + Data Sources |
Chinitz, Benjamin. "Contrasts in Agglomeration: New York and Pittsburgh," in Readings in Urban Economics, edited by Matthew Edel and Jerome Rothenberg. New York: Macmillan Company, 1972, pp. 90-104.
Markusen, Ann. 1994. Studying Regions by Studying Firms. The Professional Geographer 46 (4):477-490.
Sayer, Andrew and Kevin Morgan "A modern industry in a declining region: links between method, theory and policy" in The Politics of Method (London: Methuen, 1984) Ch 6
-> familiarize yourself with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). see this US Census overview, a useful FAQ and a set of issue papers. see also the Economic Census.
here is an overview of US census data and geography (via my UP504 course page)
see also:
Blakely, Edward James, and Nancey Green Leigh. 2010. Planning local economic development: theory and practice. 4th ed. Los Angeles: Sage. [Chapter 6] [text to be added]
Alonso, William. "Location Theory," in Regional Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975, pp. 35-63.
Nelson, Arthur C. et. al. “Exurban Industrialization: Implications for Economic Development Policy” Economic Development Quarterly 9, 2 (May 1995)
Carlson, Virginia L. "Identifying Neighborhood Businesses: a Comparison of Business Listings." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, February 1995, pp. 50-59.
Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani, An Introduction to Regional Economics (on-line edition)
Cortright, Joseph and Andrew Reamer. 1999. Socioeconomic Data for Understanding Your Regional Economy: A User's Guide. see, e.g., Data sources; Statistics for analyzing your economy; and Seven pitfalls of data analysis. (Chapters 2, 3, 8). [link] |
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Oct 11: Economic Base, Multipliers, Location Quotients |
Tiebout, Charles M. "Exports and Regional Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 64, No. 2, April 1956, pp. 160-164.
North, Douglass C. "Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, No. 3, June 1955, pp. 243-258.
Davis, H. Craig “Economic Base Analysis” Regional Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation, Chapter 2 (also in ebrary)
Isserman, Andrew M. 2000. Economic base studies for urban and regional planning. Pp. 174-193 In Rodwin and Sanyal, eds. The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges, 1950-2000. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.
Stevens, Benjamin and Lahr, Michael. 1988. “Regional Economic Multipliers: Definition, Measurement, and Application.” EDQ 2,1: 88-96.
see also:
Edward M. Bergman and Edward J. Feser, Industrial and Regional Clusters: Concepts and Comparative Applications: (section on Location Quotients)
William A. Schaffer, Regional Impact Models. see Chapter 2: Regional Models of Income Determination: Simple Economic-Base Theory (on multipliers and location quotients)
also: here is an Excel file with several useful techniques (including multipliers, LQ, etc.)
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Oct 13: Shift-Share and the Analysis of Industrial Mix [links updated] |
Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani, An Introduction to Regional Economics [a classic text, updated]. see Appendix 12-1 The Shift-Share Analysis of Components of Regional Activity Growth. (The Web Book of Regional Science, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University).
Using Employment Data to Better Understand Your Local Economy: Tool 4. Shift-Share Analysis Helps Identify Local Growth Engines (College of Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Research and Cooperative Extension, Penn State)
see also:
Günter Krumme's useful web site on shift-share analysis [site currently not accessible...]
Loveridge, Scott. "A Practical Approach to Shift-Share Analysis" Journal of Community Development Society (26, 1) 1995, pp. 111-124
Community Economic Toolbox (MIT) [see section on shift-share]
Scranton, Philip "Beyond Anecdotes and Aggregates: The Pattern of Industrial Decline in Philadelphia Textiles, 1916-1931" Antipode 18: 3 (1986)
Kingsley E. Haynes, Mustafa Dinc, Productivity change in manufacturing regions: a multifactor/shift-share approach. Growth and Change, Spring 1997 v28 n2 p201-221.
Banasick, Shawn and Hanham, Robert (2008), Regional Decline of Manufacturing Employment in Japan during an
Era of Prolonged Stagnation, Regional Studies,42:4,489-503.
Artige, Lionel, and Leif van Neuss. 2014. "A New Shift-Share Method." Growth and Change 45 (4):667-683.
Barff, Richard and Prentice L. Knight III. "Dynamic Shift-Share Analysis" Growth and Change. April 1, 1988
data sources include:
http://www.census.gov/data/data-tools.html
not yet posted:
[add link]
Hewings, Geoffrey J.D. Regional Input-Output Analysis (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985) pp. 1-66
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Oct 20: Everyone Talks about High Tech but what is it? Measuring High Technology, Innovation, Info-Tech, Research & Development (R&D) |
Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen, Greg Schrock, Daisaku Yamamoto and Pingkang Yu, 2004, Gauging Metropolitan "High-Tech" and "I-Tech" Activity, Economic Development Quarterly 18 (1): 10-29.
Daniel E. Hecker, 2005. High-technology employment: a NAICS-based update. Monthly Labor Review (July): 57-72. [link]
National Science Foundation: National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2016 • Definitions of Research and Development: An Annotated Compilation of Official Sources [note: review these various pages to get a sense of definitions and central topics]
see also: Technical Note: Defining High-Technology Industries
additional readings (for further interest):
Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Erik J. de Bruijn. 2006. High technology revisited: definition and position. IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology. [link]
Saxenian, AnnaLee. The Limits of Autarky: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128. (Prepared for HUD Roundtable on Regionalism sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Dec 8-9, 1994.) html
Saxenian, AnnaLee. Creating a Twentieth Century Technical Community: Frederick Terman‘s Silicon Valley. Paper prepared for inaugural symposium on The Inventor and the Innovative Society, The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution: November 10-11, 1995. html
Havlick, David and Scott Kirsch. A Production Utopia? RTP and the North Carolina Research Triangle Southeastern Geographer; Nov 2004; 44 (2): 263-277.
NSF. 2014. U.S. Knowledge-Intensive Services Industries Employ 18 Million and Pay High Wages. NSF 15-300 | October. [link]
National Science Foundation. Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 Digest • Research and Development (R&D) Definitions
Patrick Kilcoyne. 2001. High-Tech Occupations by Metropolitan Statistical Area. US Bureau of Labor Statistics. [link]
web resources:
Silicon Valley
History and Internet
History
Chronology
of the Personal computer (from Fire
in the Valley)
Jeff Goodell, "The
Venture Capitalist in My Bedroom" New York Times
SiliconValley.com (San
Jose Mercury News)
Joint Venture: Silicon Valley
Network
City of San Jose,
Office of Economic Development
Business
Week: "It Must be something in the water: Many regions have
tried to duplicate the Valley magic. None has succeeded" (8/25/97)
Stanford Alumni Magazine: the
rise of Hewlitt-Packard; Terman's
push for more govt funding at Stanford;
Siliconia (a web page
devoted to all the Silicon Valley spin-offs around the world)
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Oct 25: Cluster Analysis: why does economic activity come together and what are the direct and indirect benefits? |
Doeringer, Peter B., and David G. Terkla "Business Strategy and Cross-Industry Clusters." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1995, pp. 225-237.
Held, James R. "Clusters as an Economic Development Tool: Beyond the Pitfalls." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 249-261.
Feser, Edward J. and Michael I. Luger "Cluster Analysis as a Mode of Inquiry: Its Use in Science and Technology Policymaking in North Carolina." European Planning Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 11-24.
see also:
Feser, Edward, Henry Renski and Harvey Goldstein. 2008. Clusters and Economic Development Outcomes: An Analysis of the Link Between Clustering and Industry Growth. Economic Development Quarterly 22 (4): 324-344.
Nolan, Christine, Ed Morrison, Indraneel Kumar, Hamilton Galloway and Sam Cordes. 2011. Linking Industry and Occupation Clusters in Regional Economic Development, Economic Development Quarterly 25(1) 26–35.
Morfessis, Ioanna. "A Cluster Analytic Approach to Identifying and Developing State Target Industries: The Case of Arizona". Economic Development Review. Spring 1994.
E. Bergman and E. Feser. Industrial and Regional Clusters, chapters 3-4 |
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Oct 27: Input-Output Analysis: Understanding the interdependent linkages within the economy |
Miller, Ronald E., and Peter D. Blair. 2009. Input-output analysis : foundations and extensions. 2nd ed. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press. [link] (Introduction)
Raa, Thjs ten. 2009. Input-Output Economics : Theory and Applications : Featuring Asian Economies. Singapore, SGP: World Scientific Publishing Co. [ebrary] (read the Introduction and Ch. 1 -- and feel free to read other sections as interested)
Davis, H. Craig. 1990. Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation. Vancouver, CA: UBC Press. [ebrary] (Ch. 4: Input-Output Analysis.)
see also:
"The Economics of Wassily Leontief: Input-Output Analysis" (excellent 6 minute video of Prof. David Harvey explaining I/O).
Polenske, Karen R. 2004. "Leontief's "magnificent machine" and other contributions to applied economics." In Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics, edited by Erik Dietzenbacher and Michael L. Lahr. West Nyack, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. [ebrary]
Ichimura, Shinichi, and Hui-Jiong Wang. 2003. Interregional Input-Output Analysis of the Chinese Economy. River Edge, NJ, USA: World Scientific. [ebrary] (esp. Ch 1)
Peterson, William. 1991. Advances in Input-Output Analysis : Technology, Planning, and Development. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press. [ebrary]
David Mulkey and Alan W. Hodges, Using Implan to Assess Local Economic Impacts, University of Florida IFAS Extension, Publication #FE168. [link]
US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis: Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II)
Input-Output (Gunter Krumme, University of Washington)
Internet Resources for the Leontief Model (John H. Mathews, California State Univ. Fullerton)
Input-Output Analysis and Related Methods (Thayer Watkins, San Jose State University)
Software/Models:
IMPLAN • overview of IMPLAN
REMI
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Nov 1: Student Presentations (ca. 10 minute presentations + 5-8 min discussion per group) |
• Assignment 2: Industry Analysis |
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PEOPLE: Occupations, Labor Markets, Workforce Development, LABOR MIGRATION |
Nov 8: Occupational Analysis & Workforce Development |
Beauregard, Robert A. 1999. “The Employment Fulcrum: Evaluating Local Economic Performance.” Economic Development Quarterly. Vol. 13. No. 1. Pp. 8-14.
Markusen, Ann. “Targeting Occupations in Regional and Community Economic Development.” 2004. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 70, No. 3: 253-268.
Elisa Barbour and Ann Markusen. "Regional Occupational and Industrial Structure: Does the One Imply the Other?" 2007. International Regional Science Review, Vol. 30, No. 1:1-19.
Angel, David P. "The Labor Market for Engineers in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry" Economic Geography, Vol. 65, No. 2, April 1989, pp. 99-112.
The Role of the Workforce Development System in the Economic Development of Urban Areas Kevin Hollenbeck, in Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning." Oxford Handbooks Online. [accessible through UM Library online]
see also:
Koo, J. 2005. How to analyze the regional economy with occupation data. Economic Development Quarterly 19, no 4: 356-72. [could be useful for Assignment 3]
Harper-Anderson, Elsie, “Measuring the Connection Between Workforce Development and Economic Development: Examining the Role of Sector-Based Strategies for Local Outcomes,” Economic Development Quarterly 22(2), 2008.
Persky, Joseph, Daniel Felsenstein, and Virginia Carlson. 2004. Does "Trickle Down" Work? : Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets. Kalamazoo, MI, USA: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [ebrary]
Bosworth, Brian R., et. al. Using Regional Economic Analysis in Urban Jobs Strategies. Carrboro, NC: Regional Technology Strategies, February 1997. (Note: a LONG document; read selectively, e.g., the section on "Thinking Strategically About Your Regional Labor Market," pp. 34-42.)
Ranney, David C. and John J. Betancur. 1992. "Labor-Force-Based Development: A Community-Oriented Approach to Targeting Job Training and Industrial Development." Economic Development Quarterly 6,3: 286-96.
Mathur, V. K. 1999. “Human capital-based strategy for regional economic development.” Economic Development Quarterly 13: 203-216
Ann Markusen and Greg Schrock. 2008. Placing Labor Center-Stage in Industrial City Revitalization, in McGahey, Richard, and Vey, Jennifer S., eds. Retooling for Growth : Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas. Washington, DC, USA: Brookings Institution Press. [ebrary]
Schrock, G. (2014). Connecting people and place prosperity: Workforce development and urban planning in scholarship and practice. Journal of Planning Literature, 29(3), 257-271.
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Nov 10: Guest speaker: Amy Cell, "Talent: The New Currency in Economic Development" [confirm] |
Amy Cell (Consultant at Amy Cell LLC) connects employers and entrepreneurs with talent. She previously was Senior Vice President, Talent Enhancement at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and Vice President, Talent Enhancement and Entrepreneurial Education at Ann Arbor SPARK. She has a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan - Ross School of Business.
readings: explore the current state of economic development efforts at MEDC,the relatively new Department of Talent and Economic Development (and its Workforce Development Agency), Pure Michigan Talent Connect, the Michigan Strategic Fund, and see if you can understand the relationship between these various state-level organizations. |
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Nov 15: Demography, Labor Migration, Displacement |
Tiebout, Charles M. "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 64, No. 5, October 1956, pp. 416-424.
Frey, William H. Immigration and Internal Migration "Flight from US Metropolitan Areas: Toward a New Demographic Balkanization." Urban Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4-5, May 1995, pp. 733-757.
Florida, Richard. 2002. Bohemia and economic geography, Journal of Economic Geography 2 (Jan): 55-71.
Myers, Dowell and Lee Menifee . "Population Analysis," in The Practice of Local Government Planning, 3rd edition, edited by Charles J. Hoch, Linda C. Dalton and Frank S. So, International City/County Management Association, 2000, pp. 61-86.
Jasper, James M.. Restless Nation : Starting Over in America. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 2002. (Ch 3. New Places, Names, and Selves) [ebrary]
see also:
Gottlieb, P.D. 2011. Supply or demand, make or buy: Two simple frameworks for thinking about a state-level brain drain policy. Economic Development Quarterly 25, no 4: 303-15. [see also the other articles in this EDQ Special Issue on "Brain Drain"]
excerpts from Bill Bishop, The Big Sort [link]
Florida, Richard. Who's Your City? : How the Creative Economy Is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. New York, NY, USA: Basic Books, 2008. [ebrary]
Brookings: Audrey Singer, Migration and the Metropolis (April 2013) [online]
Frey, William H.: Migration to the suburbs and Sun Belt picks up (April 2013) [online]
Frey, William H. A Rollercoaster Decade for Migration, Brookings. (2009) [online]
Moss, L. A. G., ed. Amenity Migrants : Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and Their Cultures. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, GBR: CABI Publishing, 2006. (Chapter 4. Geographic Perspective on Amenity Migration across the USA: National-, Regional- and Local-scale Analysis) [ebrary]
Nick Schulz . Mobility Matters: Understanding the New Geography of Jobs (An Interview with Enrico Moretti, author of The New Geography of Jobs) The American. July 25, 2012. [link]
Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark J. Kutzbach, and David Neumark, 2014. "Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?" Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 79, pp. 39-58.
links:
US Census:Geographical Mobility/Migration • Migration Data and Reports • Census Flows Mapper
United Van Lines 2014 National Movers Study
the American Moving & Storage Association
CS Monitor: "Patchwork Nation" |
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Nov 17: Labor Mobility: Up the Occupational/Career Ladders (and often out across space as well) |
Iversen, Roberta Rehner, and Armstrong, Annie Laurie. Jobs Aren't Enough : Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press, 2006. (Ch 1 Are Jobs Enough for Economic Mobility? Ch 2 From the Old to the New Economic Mobility) [ebrary]
Giloth, Robert P., ed. Workforce Development Politics : Civic Capacity and Performance. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press, 2004. (Ch 1: The "Local" in Workforce Development Politics: An Introduction) [ebrary]
Nelson, M. and L. Wolf-Powers. 2010. Chains and ladders: Exploring the opportunities for workforce development and poverty reduction in the hospital sector. Economic Development Quarterly 24, no 1: 33-44.
Persky, Joseph, Daniel Felsenstein, and Virginia Carlson. 2004. Does "Trickle Down" Work? : Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets. Kalamazoo, MI, USA: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [ebrary] (read Ch. 2: "Labor Markets and Trickle Down," pp. 11-22)
see also:
Meléndez, Edwin. Communities and Workforce Development. Kalamazoo, MI, USA: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004. [ebrary]
Garmise, Shari. People and the Competitive Advantage of Place : Building a Workforce for the 21st Century. Armonk, NY, USA: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005. [ebrary]
Brueckner, J.K., J.-F. Thisse and Y. Zenou. 2002. Local labor markets, job matching, and urban location. International Economic Review 43, no 1: 155-71.
W.E. Upjohn Institute • Local Labor Markets • research publications
*Examples of Local Labor Market Analyses:
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation. 2013. Industry and Labor Market Intelligence for Los Angeles County.
New York City
NYC Office of Workforce Development: NYC Labor Market Information Service
New York State, Department of Labor: Labor Statistics for the New York City Region
Community Service Society: Labor Market Policy
CUNY, Center for Urban Research: The NYC Labor Market Information Service
Detroi7t
State of Michigan, Department of Technology, Management, and Budget: Demographic and Labor Market Profile: Detroit City (April 2015)
JPMORGAN CHASE: Driving Opportunity in Detroit
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Nov 22: Student Presentations |
• Assignment 3: Occupational Analysis
[link to upload slides]
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Nov 24: Thanksgiving Break -- no class |
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Programs / Policies: Understanding and evaluating |
Nov 29: Economic Development Evaluation I: Techniques |
Reese, L.A. 2014. If all you have is a hammer: Finding economic development policies that matter. The American Review of Public Administration 44, no 6: 627-55.
Rubin, Herbert J. "Shoot Anything That Flies; Claim Anything That Falls: Conversations With Economic Development Practitioners." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1988, pp. 236-251.
Reese, Laura and David Fasenfest ("What Works Best...") and Daniel C. Knudsen ("Rejoinder...") "What Works Best?: Values and the Evaluation of Local Economic Development Policy" and "Rejoinder: Values, Valuation and Evaluation: Limits of Theory on Practice, ." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3, August 1997, pp. 195-211.
Lyons, Thomas S., and Hamlin, Roger E.. Creating an Economic Development Action Plan : A Guide for Development Professionals Revised & Updated Edition. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. (Ch. 5: "Program Evaluation"). [ebrary].
Background literature on evaluation research:
Abravanel, M. D., Pindus, N. M., & Theodos, B. (2010). Evaluating community and economic development programs. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. [in Canvas and also via this link]
Isserman, Andrew and Terance Rephann. "The Economic Effects of the Appalachian Regional Commission: An Empirical Assessment of 26 Years of Regional Development Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 1995, pp. 345-364.
Davis, H. Craig Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation [preview via google book project]
BEA on Input-Output Analysis [link]
Felsenstein, Daniel, and Joseph Persky. "When Is a Cost Really a Benefit? Local Welfare Effects and Employment Creation in the Evaluation of Economic Development Programs." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 46-54.
Lyons, Thomas S., and Roger E. Hamlin. 2001. Creating an Economic Development Action Plan : A Guide for Development Professionals Revised & Updated Edition. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press. [Section on "Program Evaluation"]. [ebrary]
Wholey, Joseph S., Hatry, Harry P., and Newcomer, Kathryn E.. Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management : Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (3rd Edition). Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, 2010. [ebrary]
Anderson, John E., and Wassmer, Robert W.. Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area. Kalamazoo, US: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000.[ebrary]
Alexander, Ernest, and Graham Haughton. 2012. Evaluation in Planning. Brookfield, GB: Ashgate. [ebrary]
Baker, Judy L., and World Bank. 2000. Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty. Washington, US: The World Bank. [ebrary]
Stufflebeam, Daniel L., and Coryn, Chris L. S.2014. Research Methods for the Social Sciences : Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications (2). Somerset, US: Jossey-Bass. [ebrary]
Mertens, Donna M., and Wilson, Amy T. 2016. Program Evaluation Theory and Practice : A Comprehensive Guide. New York, US: The Guilford Press, 2012. [ebrary]
Brett, Deborah L., and Schmitz, Adrienne.2009. Real Estate Market Analysis : Methods and Case Studies, Second Edition. Washington, US: Urban Land Institute. [ebrary]
download useful excel spreadsheet with cost-benefit, location quotients, multiplier, etc.
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Dec 1: Economic Development Evaluation II: Case Studies of BMW and Film Subsidies |
Case Study #1: BMW in Spartanburg
• The Economic Impact of BMW on South Carolina (2002); BMW's Impact in South Carolina: Two Decades of Economic Development (Dec 2014) (U. of South Carolina Business School)
• community impacts: BMW site
see also
• Jay Hancock,1999. "S.C. pays dearly for added jobs: South Carolina's economy was supposed to improve, but taxes exploded while services crumbled," Baltimore Sun, Originally published on Oct 12 1999. [link]
• Tracking Subsidies, Promoting Accountability in Economic Development (Good Jobs First)
• Jason Spencer, "Spartanburg takes a look back at landing BMW," The State, July 13, 2014
Case Study #2: State Subsidies of the Film Industry
• Steven R. Miller and Abdul Abdulkadri, The Economic Impact of Michigan’s Motion Picture Production Industry and the Michigan Motion Picture Production Credit, Center for Economic Analysis, Michigan State University, February 6, 2009 [link]
• Robert Tannerwald, State Film Subsidies: Not Much Bang for Too Many Bucks, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, (Dec. 9, 2010) [link]
• David Zin, Film Incentives in Michigan, Issue paper, Senate Fiscal Agency, September 2010. [link]
• Michael D. LaFaive, Flawed MSU Film Subsidy Report Misleads Taxpayers,Viewpoint on Public Issues, July 6, 2009 (No. 2009-19), Mackinac Center for Public Policy. [link to web page; pdf version of report]
• Philips, Andrew, Robert Cline and William Fox. Evaluating the effectiveness of state film tax credit programs: Issues that need to be considered. Commissioned by Motion Picture Association of America. N.P.: Ernst & Young, 2012.
• Preston, P. (2013). "If you scale back now, you probably lose everything": State tax incentives and the motion picture industry. MEIEA Journal, 13(1), 181-205.
[optional] see also these other case studies:
Hall, Peter V. "We’d Have to Sink the Ships: Impact Studies and the 2002 West Coast Port Lockout." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4, November 2004, pp. 254-367.
Stone, Kenneth G. Impact of Walmart Stores on Iowa Communities: 1983- 1993, Economic Development Review, Vol. 13, #2 (Spring 1995), 60-69
Nelson, Arthur C. "Prosperity or Blight? A Question of Major League Stadia Locations." Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 255-265.
Delaney, Kevin J., and Eckstein, Rick. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Rutgers University Press, 2004. [ebrary].
Stokan, E., L. Thompson and R.J. Mahu. 2015. Testing the differential effect of business incubators on firm growth. Economic Development Quarterly 29, no 4: 317-27.
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Persky, Joseph, Daniel Felsenstein, and Virginia Carlson. 2004. Does "Trickle Down" Work? : Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets. Kalamazoo, MI, USA: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [ebrary] (read Ch. 3: "The Problem with Impact Analysis Counting Everything, Valuing Nothing")
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Dec 6: Student Presentations II: Economic Development Policy Comparison of your Two Cases (Option "A) OR Critique of Economic Policy/Program Study (Option "B") |
[13 minute presentations + 5 minutes of Q&A = 18 minutes per group]
LINK TO GOOGLE SLIDES (FOR UPLOADING)
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Dec 8: Special discussion session -- The Unsettled City Economy: Nostalgia for the Vanishing Manufacturing World & the Contemporary Dilemma of Urban Gentrification in Post-Industrial Cities |
Please read this collection of brief, lively articles on the shifting, unsettling foundations of urban economies: from manufacturing to services, and from urban decline (one form of migration and displacement) to gentrification (another form of migration and displacement). Consider the dynamic and uneasy relationships between the disruptive rush towards urban economic innovation/reinvention and the need for community stability, continuity and a sense of place (and even a right to stay in place). [NOTE: you can access the readings two ways: copies in Canvas, and direct links the the New York site]
Gopnik, Adam. 2015. Naked Cities, The New Yorker, Oct 05.
Sanneh, Kelefa. 2016. Is Gentrification really a problem? What the American ghetto reveals about the ethics and economics of changing neighborhoods, The New Yorker, Jul 11.
Ledbetter, James. 2015. What’s So Great About Manufacturing? The New Yorker, August 6.
Sernovitz, Gary. 2016. Why We Pine for Manufacturing,The New Yorker, August 6.
related (optional) readings:
on gentrification tensions playing out in public parks:
Wong, Julia Carrie. 2015. Dropbox, Airbnb, and the Fight over San Francisco’s Public Spaces, The New Yorker, October 23.
and some articles on the earlier stages of New York City's gentrification and shift away from manufacturing:
Howe, Marvine. 1984. Have-Nots Fear 'Manhattanization' As Developers Size Up Chinatown. The New York Times. Sep 21.
Wald, Matthew L. 1987. Managing Gentrification: A Challenge to the Cities. The New York Times. Sep 13.
Muschamp, Herbert. 1995. Remodeling New York For the Bourgeoisie. The New York Times. Sep 24.
Berlin, Joseph. 2004. The Shrinking and Fading Garment Center; As Manufacturing Shifts in Fashion Industry, Gritty Lofts Become Upscale Apartments. The New York Times. Aug 23
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FINAL Session: Synthesis & CONCLUSIONS |
Dec 13: Final Class, Synthesis and Student Reflection Pieces |
This last session will provide an opportunity to link common themes from the various course sections and develop a set of principles for good local economic development and analysis. Be ready to share your contribution and discuss and compare each student's contribution.
TASK: Each student is to come to class with a one-page sheet (with enough copies for the class, i.e., 13 copies) of 5-7 lessons / principles from the course. (Format: a numbered list; each lesson / principle should be one or several sentences long.) If useful, you might also include a diagram, chart or illustration. UPDATE: Alternative formats: I encourage you, as an option, to explore alternative formats (rather than a list of lessons): you might combine text, keywords, questions, illustrations, diagrams, timelines, etc. Creativity and insightfulness welcomed. You might provide a conceptual map of local economic development. |
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