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Creative Class County Codes

2018

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Abstract

the creative class thesis that towns need to attract engineers architects artists and people in other creative occupations to compete in today s economy may be particularly relevant to rural communities which tend to lose much of their talent when young adults leave the ers creative class codes indicate a county s share of population employed in occupations that require thinking creatively variables used to construct the ers creative class measure include number and percent employed in creative class occupations and a metro nonmetro indicator for all counties 1990 2000 and 2007 11 a break out of employment in the arts is included

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