This paper examines the effects of the housing boom of the early 2000s on unemployment in U . S . metropolitan areas. A region’s share of housing units built between 2000 and 2006 has no effect on unemployment prior to the start of the Great Recession, but the extent of a region’s housing boom increases unemployment in over one‐half of the months analyzed during and immediately following it. Regression results based on a cluster analysis of metropolitan areas indicate that regions characterized by high growth rates of construction, retail, and hospitality employment during the early 2000s were hit particularly hard by the recession.

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Gabe, T. M. (n.d.). Effects of the Housing Boom and Bust on U.S. Metro Employment. Growth and Change, 44(3), 391–414. Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/00174815/v44i0003/391_eothbaboume.xml.