Relocating to Peripheral Cities
Development and Diversity From Relocating Government Jobs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21352743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Sandholt Jensen (0000-0003-1905-6859, Department of Economics and Statistics Linnaeus University Sweden), Poul Jensen (Linnaeus University), Torben Dall Schmidt (0000-0002-7662-1669, Department of Economics University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark, corresponding author), Jens Fyhn Lykke Sørensen (0000-0003-1227-1783, Department of Political Science and Public Management Danish Centre for Rural Research, University of Southern Denmark Esbjerg Denmark) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 830-843 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Regional Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4146 • E-ISSN: 1467-9787 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jors.70040 |
| OpenAlex | W7117760811 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
The local labor market effects of relocating central government jobs to cities in rural municipalities is investigated by considering two small‐scale interventions by the Danish government in the mid‐2000s. We leverage the Synthetic Control Method to compare the two affected municipalities to a synthetic counterfactual. Results show that relocating central government jobs: (1) increased government employment; (2) had no impact on private employment; and (3) had little impact on diversity even if (1) and (2) suggest otherwise. These results add new insights into the effects of small‐scale relocations relative to previous contributions
Central government · Control (management) · Diversity (politics) · Government (linguistics) · Leverage (statistics) · Local government · Psychological intervention · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Rural development and sustainability
The Synth_Runner Package
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies
Local labor market effects of public employment
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism
Local employment multipliers for large publicly subsidized firms
Inference with “Difference in Differences” with a Small Number of Policy Changes
The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)
The Stockholm Syndrome
Life after public employment retrenchment
Core versus periphery
Incorporating job diversity preference into measuring job accessibility
The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets
The impact of public employment
Relocation of public sector workers
Relatedness, complexity and local growth
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |