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The industrial landscape of the U.S. has undergone major changes in the last three decades, which have affected the location of the work-force as much as sector location. This paper adopts a dynamic approach in order to analyse the principal characteristics of this process in the time-period 1969–1995 among the twenty two-digit SIC industries. Two main conclusions have emerged. First, we find that, in general, industries are tending to reduce their degree of concentration. Secondly, the classification of industries according to different economic criteria allows us to test the degree of compliance with various theoretical propositions and to detect relevant empirical regularities.
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Received: July 2001/Accepted: August 2002
The authors would like to express their thanks to two anonymous referees for their valuable comments and observations on an earlier version of this work. Similarly, they are grateful for the financial support provided by the University of Zaragoza under Project UZ2001-SOC-09.
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Lanaspa, L., Sanz, F. The evolution of the U.S. industrial landscape, 1969–1995. Ann Reg Sci 37, 239–258 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680300125
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680300125