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PRODUCTIVITY AND THE SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR SIMON'S MODEL
Author(s) -
Jones Barclay Gibbs
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1984.tb00812.x
Subject(s) - productivity , economics , technical change , regional science , distribution (mathematics) , economic geography , econometrics , sociology , economic growth , mathematics , mathematical analysis
As society changes, so Regional Science must devise new methods to analyze these changes, for technical change affects not merely society but also the social sciences. This claim is illustrated by an analysis and a test of Simon's (1947) model of productivity, economic structure, and spatial distribution of activities.