Abstract
O HUALLACHAIN B. (1991) Sectoral clustering and growth in American metropolitan areas, Reg. Studies 25, 411–426. The purposes of this paper are to develop a theory of industrial clustering of information intensive industries, identify intermetropolitan clusters of sectors in the US, to test the relationship between the clustering pattern and metropolitan employment and income growth, and to interpret temporal changes in the clusters. The empirical results reported here are based on factor analyses of employment shares in seventy-seven sectors in the 150 largest metropolitan areas in 1977 and 1986. The sectors are mainly two-digit industries. Also included are nine auxiliary and administrative sectors and three government sectors. The factor analyses succeeded in identifying spatial associations among sectors. Little association was found between the location of high-order services and corporate auxiliary and administrative employment. I interpret clustering of information intensive service and manufacturi...
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