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Minimum Requirements Approach

to the Economic Base

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/350/minreq.html)

The minimum requirements approach (MRA) compares a focal region's employment pattern to that of similar(ly sized) regions. It assumes that regional employment in any specific industry (i) in that region (r) with the lowest (or close to the lowest) employment percentage in that industry is just sufficient to satisfy local demand and does not contribute to exports. This industry than does not include any basic employment. All other regions, including our focal region, would employ basic (export) workers in any specific industry to the extent that its exployment exceeds that industry's employment in the 'minimum requirement region'.


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Literature:

Alexandersson, Gunnar. "City-Forming and City-Serving Production," in: The Industrial Structure of American Cities. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1956, pp.14-20 [reprinted in Mayer & Kohn. Readings in Urban Geography, 1959, pp.110ff.]

Davis, H. Craig, Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation, UBC Press: Vancouver, 1993, pp.18-9.

Brodsky, Harold and D.E. Sarfaty, Measuring the Urban Economic Base in a Developing Country, Land Economics 53 (1977), 445-54.

Klosterman, Richard E., Community Analysis and Planning Techniques, 1990, Ch.11 ("Minimum Requirements Approach")

Tiebout Charles M,, The Community Economic Base Study, CED 1962, pp.49f.

Ullman, Edward L.,"The Minimum Requirements Approach to the Urban Economic Base" (with Michael F. Dacey). Papers and Proceedings, Regional Science Association 6 (1960): 175-94.

Paper presented to American Statistical Association and Regional Science Association, December 27, 1959; abstract pub-lished in Summaries of Papers, ASA, Washington, D.C., 1959, pp. 12-13. Also in Proceedings IOU Symposium in Urban Geography, Lund 1960 (Lund Studies in Geography, Series B, No.24, edited by Knut Norb~, pp. 121-43. See also discussion on "Expansion of Urban Areas," Ibid., pp. 596-600. Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Geography, 1968.

Ullman, E.L. The Economic Base of the 101 Largest Cities of the United States (with Harold Brodsky and Michael Dacey). Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, Washington, D.C., 1968.

Ullman, E.L. "Minimum Requirements after a Decade: A Critique and an Appraisal." Economic Geography 44 (1968): 364-69.

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