Intra-metropolitan shifts in labor demand and the adjustment of local markets

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 514-533

  Dworak Fisher, Keenan ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Commuting; Employment; Job relocation; Local labor markets; Metropolitan decetralization; Migration; Residential mobility; Spatial mismatch; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342537810     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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