Economics 4325 - Urban & Regional Economics

Additional Questions from Chapters Supplement & Chapters 3&4

1. What are two polar views to explain regional flows? How do they equate regional wages differences?

2. How is the pull and push of economic motives to migration influenced (a) by the business cycle? (b) by the age distribution of the population?

3. What segment of the population is likely to be "footloose?"

4. What economic forces could prevent the reduction of economic differentials among regions (cities)?

5. Why would larger cities be a more favorable environment for innovation?

6. Give and example of urbanization as a reflection of the ability to limit killer diseases.

7. What has happened to the percentage of people living in MSAs in this country? Why?

8. Explain the "urbanization" of agriculture in terms of employment growth.

9. Which components of employment are the most highly urbanized. Why?

10. Which types of manufacturing establishments are the most urbanized? Why?

11. Among the top 15 largest cities, which ones are growing the fastest? Why?

12. What is the "rank size rule?"

13. What is the effect of annexation on measurement of suburbanization in cross sectional comparisons? in time series comparisons?

14. Which components of employment are becoming more suburbanized?

15. In a model for suburbanization, what is the effect of the "income elasticity of the demand for space" versus the "income elasticity of the demand for transportation savings?"