Changes in Air Service Connectivity and Employment
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 27 (2), 165-179
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a270165
Abstract
In this paper the relationship between air service connectivity and a subset of professional employment as defined by administrative and auxiliary workers for the fifty-nine largest metropolitan areas in the USA for the period 1978–88 is examined. The importance of airline service connectivity as an industrial location factor for company facilities is highlighted. Restructuring of the air service network and the emergence of the postderegulation hub-and-spoke system are also discussed. It is argued that connectivity affects, and is simultaneously affected by, administrative and auxiliary employment levels. Empirical findings suggest that changes in connectivity have a greater influence on administrative and auxiliary employment levels than changes in administrative and auxiliary employment have on connectivity.Keywords
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