@article{912cbce1b38a453db587675334532d44,
title = "Overlapping labour market areas based on link communities",
abstract = "Many urban areas around the world have expanded from monocentric to polycentric regions forming larger hierarchical structures. These regions represent functional regions or labour market areas (LMAs) that are classified as groups of counties representing mutually exclusive, non-overlapping geographies. In practice, however, a county may belong to multiple overlapping LMAs. To model this overlapping across urban hierarchies, we extend the link community method from network theory and apply it to US commuting data. Our proposed approach reliably identifies the LMAs that we would expect to find as well as core and periphery areas within them.",
author = "Yicheol Han and Goetz, {Stephan J.}",
note = "Funding Information: * An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2015 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, on 26–28 July 2015, and a portion was presented at the National Academies of Sciences Workshop on Rural Areas Classifications in Washington, DC, on 16–17 April, 2015. The authors thank Paul Gottlieb and workshop participants for comments on an earlier version of this work. This work was supported in part by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grants No. 2014-51150-22094 and No. 2015-51150-23873 as well as the National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Author(s). Papers in Regional Science {\textcopyright} 2017 RSAI",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/pirs.12326",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "98",
pages = "539--553",
journal = "Papers in Regional Science",
issn = "1056-8190",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}