Abstract
This paper examines the service industry providing a comparison with the manufacturing industry. Showing the differences in production function as well as isocost and isoquant. Manufacturing industries are capital intensive and sell products. The service industry is labor intensive and typically provides intangible goods. The service industry is than examined with regards to agglomeration. The main question is what contributes to the agglomeration of service industry firms within metropolitan statistical areas. This paper provides regression analysis, using OLS estimates of the parameters.
Advisor
Burnell, Barbara
Department
Business Economics
Recommended Citation
Deist, Ashton A., "Agglomeration of the Service Industry: a Case Study on Sector 62" (2010). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 746.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/746
Publication Date
2010
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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