ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the OLS models and tries to shed an initial light on the spatial circumstances that foster or retard employment growth in location-industries in the research area of South-Holland and the Netherlands. The Netherlands-analyses focus on the urban growth level as well, while the South-Holland analyses focus on spatial heterogeneity and contiguous dependency in intra-urban spatial settings of growth. The chapter introduces the variables that are used in the location-industry analysis. It examines geographical determinants of employment growth in 234 Dutch municipalities. The chapter looks at employment growth in 416 zip (postal) code areas in South Holland. It discusses the significance of extending the OLS null-models of location-industry specifications into contiguously defined spatial econometric ones. Sectoral interrelations captured in location-industry spatial weight matrices that allow for inter- as well as intra-sectoral growth interchanges add additional light on spatial externality structures.
