The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4041074
AutoresC S Fowler (0000-0001-8415-0441, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia), Rachel Garshick Kleit (0000-0002-2112-2934, City and Regional Planning Knowlton School of Architecture The Ohio State University 275 West Woodruff Columbus OH 43210‐1138, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen90
Número2
Páginas129-154
Fecha de publicación2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ecge.12038
OpenAlexW1924257780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas45

Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatial regression analysis techniques, we examine patterns that link clusters to poverty rates while controlling for the presence of other factors that shape the distribution of poverty in the United States. When controlling for other economic and demographic factors in a multivariate framework, the presence of industrial clusters is associated with lower poverty rates. Moreover, regions with a higher share of employment in clusters, and with that employment dispersed across many industries within the same cluster, fare even better than those where employment is concentrated in a single industry. Furthermore, while there is evidence that particular clusters are associated with significantly altered poverty rates, not all of these associations are beneficial

Cluster (spacecraft) · Demographic economics · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Multivariate statistics · Poverty · Poverty rate · Statistics · Work (physics) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies