Spatial Attributes Mediating Regional Carrying Capacity for Office Firm Sectors: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

摘要

Using stochastic frontier modeling, we examine the regional carrying capacity for office firmsectors, in the so-called COROP areas of The Netherlands. We express the concept of carryingcapacity using the number of jobs in various economic sectors. Results indicate that regions canbe characterized by economic sectors that have a minimum amount of jobs necessary to servetheir local needs and, in most of the cases, they can serve external markets due to a surplus in thenumber of jobs. On the other hand, regions can also be characterized by economic sectors thatsupport a maximum amount of jobs based on their regional specific factors. As many regions arebelow this frontier, it allows them to absorb external demands. Therefore, it may be that carryingcapacity is not an applicable concept for all sectors and that sometimes a minimum size might bea better description. In sum, the findings delineated here can compose a base framework tosimulate office firm demographic processes in line with integrated land use-transportation(LUTI) models and agent-based modeling approaches.