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Norman, Jon. "Small Cities� Fates: Population, Income and Employment Change in Smaller Metro Areas in the United States, 1970 to 2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182656_index.html>

Norman, J. R. , 2007-08-11 "Small Cities� Fates: Population, Income and Employment Change in Smaller Metro Areas in the United States, 1970 to 2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182656_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Dominant theories of urban change do not do a good job of predicting what paths smaller metro areas in the United States have taken over the latter part of the twentieth century. In this paper, I analyze what attributes of urban areas most affect changes in population and median household income during the period 1970 to 2000, focusing on 80 smaller metro areas. Using fixed effects regression analyses, I show that while the predictions of some researchers prove accurate � such as the importance of immigration streams and higher education � the smaller places in this study also illustrate that other predictions � primarily about employment levels in specific sectors � do not hold true. According to many prominent theories of urban change, smaller metro areas should not see increases in income levels based on higher wages or based on jobs in high end services or the FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) industries; nonetheless, the smaller places on paths of success illustrate just that. And although growth is more concentrated in the West and South of the United States, region does not dictate success overall for this group; instead, region appears to be a historically contingent correlate to success.

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