Economic Shifts Along the US-Mexico Border: Investigating the Changes in Location Quotient at the Block Level in Four US Border

Cunningham, James

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Economic Shifts Along the US-Mexico Border: Investigating the Changes in Location Quotient at the Block Level in Four US Border

dc.contributor.author	Cunningham, James
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of City and Regional Planning	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-01T19:14:00Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-01T19:14:00Z
dc.date.issued	2018-08
dc.description.abstract	US border cities are often considered “city-pairs” with coinciding Mexican industrial cities. Current literature suggests that the export economy of these Mexican cities increases employment in US border cities for the transport/warehousing, retail trade, and manufacturing sectors from the years 1976 to 2006. Focusing on Douglas, AZ, Nogales, AZ, Calexico, CA and San Diego, CA, this study uses LODES WAC census block level data and a location quotient analysis to (1) determine if these three industries have continued to grow from 2004 to 2015 using summary statistics, still maps, and animated maps (2) determine if these shifts are related to US/MX border proximity using regression techniques. It was found that the location quotient for manufacturing decreased in all cities but San Diego, with location quotient values being strongly related to border proximity. Similarly, all cities but San Diego showed a decrease in retail trade location quotient, although this trend was not always related to border proximity. California border cities showed a decrease, but Arizona cities showed a continued increase in transport/warehousing location quotient with most cases related to border proximity. These results suggest that while spillover effects continue to exist in these US/MX city pairs, they are largely concentrated in the transport/warehousing sector, with the maturation and continued development of Mexican industrial cities likely leading to less manufacturing needs in US border cities across the study period.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/60458
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Border cities	en_US
dc.subject	US-Mexico border	en_US
dc.subject	Trade policy	en_US
dc.subject	Industrialization	en_US
dc.title	Economic Shifts Along the US-Mexico Border: Investigating the Changes in Location Quotient at the Block Level in Four US Border	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Masters Project
dc.type.genre	Capstone Paper
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local.relation.ispartofseries	Master's Projects
local.relation.ispartofseries	Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology
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