Graduation Year
2018
Date of Submission
12-2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Angela Vossmeyer
Reader 2
Manfred Keil
Reader 3
Peter Uvin
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© 2017 Samuel J. Peterson
Abstract
Southern California is the largest U.S. metropolitan area geographically, and demonstrates complex spatial relationships between county labor markets. This paper is interested in investigating the employment dependencies between the core city of Los Angeles its respective commuting sheds, such as San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Using time series data that includes labor demand shocks from the Great Recession, this analysis implements a vector autoregressive model to dissect the relationship between urban and suburban employment changes. The work finds a strong lagging-leading relationship between counties that varies by business cycle phase, and provides policy implications from this relationship.
Recommended Citation
Peterson, Samuel, "Spatial and Temporal Employment Relationships: Southern California as a Case Study" (2018). CMC Senior Theses. 1813.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1813
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
