Employment sub-centers of a megacity in a developing country: the case of the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

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Abstract

Theoretical models concerned with multiple centers have been brought to the debate on sprawling urban employment. However, empirical methods that identify these centers are not a specific focus of the specialized literature. The purpose of this paper is to apply a new empirical methodology in the identification and characterization of urban employment subcenters (Small Business Districts, SBD) using the case of the Municipality of São Paulo. To this end, we adopted a two-step approach, developing: 1) Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and 2) Spatial Hedonic Price Model. As a result, we found seven regions that can be considered SBDs. 

 

Keywords: Urban Economics, Center Business District, Subcenter Business District, Spatial Econometrics

JEL Codes: R32, C21

Author Biography

Rodger Barros Antunes Campos, Associate Researcher in the Regional and Urban Economics (NEREUS), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Mestre em Economia Aplicada pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Atualmente, doutorando em Economia pelo Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas da Universidade de São Paulo (IPE-USP) e membro do Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da Universidade de São Paulo (NEREUS). Tem experiência na área de Economia, com ênfase em Economia Regional e Urbana e Métodos Quantitativos, atuando nos seguintes temas: Economia Regional e Urbana, Econometria Espacial e Microeconometria. A questão unificadora dos trabalhos em desenvolvimento são: determinação de preços imobiliários, renda do solo, centros urbanos, construção civil, mercado de trabalho intra-urbano e desenvolvimento econômico.

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2021-12-30

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CAMPOS, R. B. A.; CHAGAS, A. Employment sub-centers of a megacity in a developing country: the case of the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. Nova Economia, [S. l.], v. 31, n. 3, p. 839–867, 2021. Disponível em: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/view/6236. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 31 No. 3 (2021): Revista Nova Economia

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