The Landscape of Urban Influence on U.S. County Job Growth.

The article presents a paper presented during the "Whither Jobs and People?: Rural-Suburban-Urban Differences and Modern Growth Patterns" session at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association on January 5-7, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. It is observed that the growth influence amenities and the pattern of urban sprawl vary across the United States. It is pointed out that the effectiveness of policies that support nonmetropolitan country growth could be enhanced.