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September 2001

Job creation and destruction within Washington and Baltimore

R. Jason Faberman

Microdata from the new BLS Longitudinal Database show that from March 1992 through March 1999, gross job flows varied significantly between central cities and suburbs in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area; higher suburban employment growth was related to higher rates of both job creation and job destruction

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