THE SOURCES OF SUBURBAN EMPLOYMENT GROWTH

A critical issue in most metropolitan areas is the suburbanization of employment. Using a newly developed database and a disaggregation of the suburbs into distinct subregions based on their characteristics, this paper goes beyond previous work in examining the degree to which employment in the suburbs has grown by segment of the business cycle, by industry, by location, and by source, either migration, expansion, or new births. This paper concludes that all these distinctions are important for understanding the sources and reasons for employment growth.