Jurgen Essletzbichler Assistant Professor
Office: 319 Gladfelter Hall Telephone: 215 204 1374
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Areas of Expertise: Economic geography, evolutionary economic theory, urban economic stability and robustness, metropolitan growth and inequality, applied spatial analysis, urban and regional economic development, job creation and destruction, spatial dimensions of productivity growth and technological change, micro-data analysis. |
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Education: Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles , Geography, 1999. |
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Professional Experience: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University College London , 2005-2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Southampton, 2001-2005. Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of California Los Angeles, 1999-2001. |
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Research: My research interests include regional economic transformation, regional competitiveness, the relationship between growth and inequality, political economy and evolutionary economic geography. My current research focuses on notions of regional competitiveness, the influence of regional policies on economic growth, stability and inequality, the impact of American recessions on regional and metropolitan employment evolutions and the geography of job creation and destruction in the UK economy. |
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Selected publications:
Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby. 2007. Exploring Evolutionary Economic Geographies. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 549-571.
Essletzbichler, J. 2007. Diversity, Stability and Regional Growth in the United States, 1975-2002. In Frenken, K., ed. Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography , 203-229. Edward Edgar, Cheltenham.
Essletzbichler, J. 2007. The Geography of Gross Employment Flows in British Manufacturing. European Urban and Regional Studies 14: 7-26.
Essletzbichler, J. 2006. Economic Geography. In Ritzer, G., ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology , 1297-1300. Blackwell: Oxford and Malden.
Rigby, D.L. and Essletzbichler, J. 2006. Technological Variety, Technological Change and a Geography of Production Techniques. Journal of Economic Geography 6: 45-70.
Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby. 2005. Competition, Variety and the Geography of Technology Evolution. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie 95: 48-62.
Castree, N., Essletzbichler, J. and N. Brenner. 2004. Introduction to the special issue on David Harvey's The Limits to Capital: Two Decades On. Antipode 36: 401-405.
Essletzbichler, J. 2004. The Geography of Job Creation and Descrution in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, 1967-1997. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94: 602-619.
Essletzbichler, J. 2003. From Mass Production to Flexible Specialization: The Sectoral and Geographical Extent of Contract Work in US Manufacturing. Regional Studies 37: 753-771.
Essletzbichler, J. 2002. Evolutionare Wirtschaftsgeographie: Neues Forschungsparadigma oder Sackgasse? (Evolutionary economic geography: New research paradigm or dead end?) Geographischer Jahresbericht aud Osterreich 59: 11-30.
Rigby, D.L. and Essletzbichler, J. 2002. Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Differences in US Cities. Journal of Economic Geography 2: 407-432.
Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby. 2002. The impact of industry-mix, innovation, selection, plant entry and exit on metropolitan labor productivity in the United States . Urban Geography 23: 279-298.
Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby. 2001. Industrial and Regional Restructuring in the US Women's Dress Industry 1963-1992. Environment and Planning A 33: 1385-1410.
Rigby, D.L. and Essletzbichler, J. 2000. Impacts of Industry Mix, Technological Change, Selection and Plant Entry/Exit on Regional Productivity Growth. Regional Studies 33: 333-342.
Essletzbichler, J. and L. Winther. 1999. Regional Technological Change and Path-Dependency in the Danish Food Processing Industry. Geografiska Annaler 81 A: 179-196.
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