Urban Economics
(2) There are 8 equally-sized counties in Corn-Land, which heavily depend on the production
of corn. The corn industry employment in the respective counties is given by:
County A B F H C D E G
Corn jobs 125 25 180 15 10 100 10 35
Calculate the Gini coefficient of job concentration (report 4 decimals)
(3) Assume there are only 6 counties in a country, and there are only three industries (beer,
bread and shirts) that employ people. The employment numbers are given in the Table
below:
Employment Beer Employment Bread Employment Shirts
County 1 20 4 45
County 2 10 6 12
County 3 12 10 10
County 4 60 10 16
County 5 10 2 12
County 6 2 6 12
Calculate the ELQs for the following county and industry combinations:
(a) Beer and County 3
(b) Bread and County 2
(c) Shirts and County 1
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