Jobs in the City

• Tác giả: Arti Grover Goswami
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 223.1 *Job
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 319428
• Chủ đề: 1. AUTOMOBILE; 2. EMPLOYMENT; 3. LAND USE PATTERN; 4. MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA; 5. POPULATION DENSITIES

Tóm tắt

 This paper examines the spatial organization of jobs in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, and applies the Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg (2002) model to explain the observed patterns in terms of the agglomeration forces and the commuting costs of workers. The paper suggests that: (i) Economic activities are concentrated in the downtown -- beyond which employment is spatially dispersed. (ii) Geographically weighted regressions identify five potential subcenters in 2011
  however, none of these contribute significantly to employment. When explaining the variation in employment density across localities in Kampala, the research highlights that (i) density falls by 23.5 percent per kilometer increase in distance from the nearest potential subcenter
  (ii) an increase in local production externalities of 10 percent increases density by 3.7 percent
  and (iii) production externalities in Kampala's potential subcenters are extremely weak to have any significant impact even on nearby tracts.