Jobs in the City

This paper examines the spatial organization of jobs in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, and applies the Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg (2002) model to explain the observed patterns in terms of the agglomeration forces and the commuting costs of workers. The paper suggests that: (i) Economic activities are concentrated in the downtown -- beyond which employment is spatially dispersed. (ii) Geographically weighted regressions identify five potential subcenters in 2011; however, none of these contribute significantly to employment. When explaining the variation in employment density across localities in Kampala, the research highlights that (i) density falls by 23.5 percent per kilometer increase in distance from the nearest potential subcenter; (ii) an increase in local production externalities of 10 percent increases density by 3.7 percent; and (iii) production externalities in Kampala's potential subcenters are extremely weak to have any significant impact even on nearby tracts.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Goswami, Arti Grover, Lall, Somik V.
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016-04
Subjects:	POPULATION DENSITIES, EMPLOYMENT, AUTOMOBILE, LAND USE PATTERN, MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ACCOUNTING, CONGESTION EXTERNALITIES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES, PRODUCTION, URBAN GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH, INCOME, LAND USE POLICIES, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORTATION COSTS, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, INFORMATION, LABOR FORCE, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, TREND, ELASTICITY, HOUSING, EFFECTS, HEALTH, EQUILIBRIUM, URBAN LAND, ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE, CITIES, LAND USE PATTERNS, RENTS, PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, CHOICE, LABOR MARKET, URBAN EMPLOYMENT, ROAD, COSTS, TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, TRANSPORT, PROBABILITY, HEALTH CENTERS, METROPOLITAN AREAS, MOBILITY, URBAN MANAGEMENT, PRODUCTIVITY, EXTERNALITIES, MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, FLOOR AREA, TRUE, LABOR, LAND VALUE, EFFICIENCY, INFRASTRUCTURE, FEMALE LABOR, LAND USE, BUSES, AUTOMOBILES, MIXED USE, BUS, TRANSPORT NETWORK, EXTERNALITY, GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM, PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, REGULATIONS, CONGESTION, TRANSPORTATION, INSPECTION, WAGES, POLICIES, SCHOOLS, VALUE, ACCESSIBILITY, FLOOR AREA RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN AREAS, URBAN AREA, INDEXES, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, JOB CREATION, BUS STATIONS, ECONOMIC THEORY, SUBURBAN AREAS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMICS, BRIDGE, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS, MANAGEMENT, SKILLED LABOR, ROADS, EQUILIBRIUM WAGES, SPRAWL, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SLUMS, LAND, THEORY, EVALUATION, RISK, AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, RAILROADS, INTEGRATION, SUPPLY, TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY, OPTIMAL ALLOCATION, POPULATION, INVESTMENTS, URBAN ECONOMICS, LABOR MARKETS, URBAN, GOVERNMENTS, URBAN HOUSING, CBD, URBAN POPULATION, INNOVATIONS, ECONOMIES, URBAN AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26286704/jobs-city-explaining-urban-spatial-structure-kampala https://hdl.handle.net/10986/24230
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