Business Services, Productivity, and Wages: Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Michigan Counties, 1977–1997

Professional Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 365-378

  Gatrell, Jay D ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business services; Economic development; Productivity; Wages

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SERVICE SECTOR; WAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036059411     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00336     Document Type: Article

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