CHANGES IN AIR SERVICE CONNECTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT

In this paper the relationship between air service connectivity and a subset of professional employment as defined by administrative and aux iliary workers for the fifty-nine largest metropolitan areas in the US A for the period 1978-88 is examined. The importance of airline servic e connectivity as an industrial location factor for company facilities is highlighted. Restructuring of the air service network and the emer gence of the postderegulation hub-and-spoke system are also discussed. It is argued that connectivity affects, and is simultaneously affecte d by, administrative and auxiliary employment levels. Empirical findin gs suggest that changes in connectivity have a greater influence on ad ministrative and auxiliary employment levels than changes in administr ative and auxiliary employment have on connectivity.