Employment Growth and the Allocation of New Jobs: Spatial Spillovers of Economic and Fiscal Impacts.

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 research on the fiscal costs of community services demonstrate that residential land use causes a net drain on local fiscal resources and commercial land use subsidizes residential development.