Prior to the pandemic, America’s tech sector was largely concentrated in a few urban areas like San Francisco and Boston, but COVID-induced remote work has led some to speculate that the tech industry will be more decentralized going forward. To investigate that possibility, Mark Muro turned to job postings data, and on a recent episode of “Political Economy,” he explained his findings and made the case for the benefits of a more dispersed tech sector.

Mark is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, DC, and the policy director of Brookings Metro. He and Yang You recently authored “Superstars, rising stars, and the rest: Pandemic trends and shifts in the geography of tech” for Brookings.