Employment spatial structure in metropolitan Lima

Escobedo Paredes, Luis

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/31944 Copy

Description

Title

Employment spatial structure in metropolitan Lima

Author(s)

Escobedo Paredes, Luis

Issue Date

2012-06-27T21:20:43Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.

Department of Study

Geography & Geographic InfoSci

Discipline

Geography

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• Employment subcenters
• Decentralization
• Polycentrism
• Latin America
• Peru

Abstract

During 1980s, Peru experienced the worst economic crisis of its history. Along with causing widespread poverty, the crisis intensified the migration process towards Metropolitan Lima, the traditional core of the country and capital city. Lima was unprepared for absorbing such a large migrant population. Migrants frequently found themselves unable to find jobs and physically unconnected with the economic center of the city. Strategic reforms and planning by national and metropolitan authorities were developed and, as a result of both, the Peruvian economy and metropolitan physical and economic conditions began to improve. Since then, Metropolitan Lima has experienced a drastic transformation: from experiencing a severe decline in population welfare due to the devastating national economic crisis, to becoming a more efficient city with an increasing wealth generation capacity, resulting from Peruvian openness to global economic trends. In order to understand this remarkable resurgence, I analyze the impacts of this economic transition on Lima’s spatial structure. Using nonparametric and semiparametric methods, I identify the location and effects of the main centers of economic activities, emphasizing their relationship with the spatial distribution of gross and sectoral employment, and thus providing a comprehensive evaluation of the success of the reforms and planning strategies in Metropolitan Lima.

Graduation Semester

2012-05

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31944

Copyright and License Information

Copyright 2012 Luis Escobedo Paredes

Owning Collections