Industrial Migration: A Case Study of Destination by City‐Surburban Origin within the New York Metropolitan Area*

Since the early stages of industrial development, the outflow of jobs from central city to suburb has been discernable. This intrametropolitan dispersion process, slowed by depression and war, gained impetus following World War II and accelerated during the ensuing decades. By the 1970s, however, a new dimension had been added to the dispersion process-especially in the mature urban areas of the North-east and Midwest-that being the outflow of jobs from suburbs themselves to other regions of the U.S. Given this new interregional dimension, a multi-jurisdictional strategy to stem the job outflow is in order. This paper provides an input into the framework for developing such a strategy through an examination of destination patterns of jobs by intrametropolitan point of origin using New York City and Nassau-Suffolk as a case study. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.