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An Examination of the Trend in Industrial Dispersion in Oklahoma From 1963 Through 1974*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

M. Gale Blalock  and
Gerald A. Doeksen
M. Gale Blalock
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University
Gerald A. Doeksen
Affiliation:
Economic Development Division, ERS, USDA stationed at Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Descriptive data have been used to show how industrial job creation is growing faster in nonmetro areas than in metro areas. For example, Haren [5] and Till [11] describe industrial decentralization in the 60s. Janssen and Tweeten [7] illustrate how the trend has continued into the 70s. In Oklahoma, Childs and Doeksen [1] report on how industry has decentralized from 1963 through 1971.

The objective of this paper is to examine and statistically test the dispersion of new manufacturing jobs with respect to size of community in Oklahoma from 1963 through 1974. Previous studies have either been descriptive or have used some measure of dispersion, such as entropy, without statistically testing the results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , July 1977 , pp. 89 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1977

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Footnotes

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The authors acknowledge the helpful contributions of Robert L. Oehrtman and Joseph F. Schmidt

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