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American Journal of Rural Development. 2013, 1(5), 99-105
DOI: 10.12691/ajrd-1-5-1
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Employment Change in LDs of West Virginia: A Dynamic Spatial Shift- Share Analysis

Janaranjana Herath1, , Peter Schaeffer2 and Tesfa Gebremedhin2

1Tillman School of Business, Mount Olive College/University, North Carolina, USA

2Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University, USA

Pub. Date: September 25, 2013

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Janaranjana Herath, Peter Schaeffer and Tesfa Gebremedhin. Employment Change in LDs of West Virginia: A Dynamic Spatial Shift- Share Analysis. American Journal of Rural Development. 2013; 1(5):99-105. doi: 10.12691/ajrd-1-5-1

Abstract

This paper uses dynamic spatial shift-share analysis to examine employment change in local development districts (LDs) of West Virginia for the period of 1976 to 2007. This paper differs from the standard shift-share analysis by combining the dynamic shift-share with the spatial shift-share and decomposing the employment change of selected sectors into four effects: state growth effect, industry mix effect, neighborhood competitive effect, and state competitive effect. Distance between main cities of local development districts were considered in developing the distance based weight matrix for measuring neighborhood competitive effects. Results describe the changing pattern of employment of the ten selected sectors namely farm employment, mining, construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation and public utilities, finance insurance and real estate, services, government, and agricultural services of the eleven local development districts of West Virginia. In many LDs’ service, finance, insurance and real estate, construction, and government sectors have been the leading contributors of employment growth in 32 year period. Even though, mining and manufacturing are two main sectors in the economy of West Virginia, employment growth of mining is reported only in a few LDs. Manufacturing employment is declining in all LDs. All LDs have some sectors that are adding employees. Investing them might accelerate economic growth. Neighborhood competitive effects show potential spatial impacts on several sectors.

Keywords:
dynamic spatial shift-share analysis local development districts West Virginia

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