Shift Share Analysis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Shift/share analysis is a technique sometimes used for retrospectively decomposing changes, usually in employment, in a set of urban areas or regions. Regional scientists widely use the technique to examine the sources of employment growth or decline. Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional. Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to location theory or spatial economics, location modeling, transportation, migration analysis, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial data analysis.