deriving the number of jobs in proximity services from the number of inhabitants in french rural municipalities推导的工作数量接近服务在法国农村城市居民的数量.pdfVIP

Deriving the Number of Jobs in Proximity Services from the Number of Inhabitants in French Rural Municipalities 1 2 3 Maxime Lenormand *, Sylvie Huet , Guillaume Deffuant 1 LISC, Irstea, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2 LISC, Irstea, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 3 LISC, Irstea, Clermont-Ferrand, France Abstract We use a minimum requirement approach to derive the number of jobs in proximity services per inhabitant in French rural municipalities. We first classify the municipalities according to their time distance in minutes by car to the municipality where the inhabitants go the most frequently to get services (called MFM). For each set corresponding to a range of time distance to MFM, we perform a quantile regression estimating the minimum number of service jobs per inhabitant that we interpret as an estimation of the number of proximity jobs per inhabitant. We observe that the minimum number of service jobs per inhabitant is smaller in small municipalities. Moreover, for municipalities of similar sizes, when the distance to the MFM increases, the number of jobs of proximity services per inhabitant increases. Citation: Lenormand M, Huet S, Deffuant G (2012) Deriving the Number of Jobs in Proximity Services from the Number of Inhabitants in French Rural Municipalities. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40001. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040001 Editor: Enrico Scalas, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Received March 12, 2012; Accepted May 30, 2012; Published July 3, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Lenormand et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This publication has b