The geography of job creation and destruction in the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1967-1997

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 602-619

  Essletzbichler, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment change; Job creation; Job destruction; Metropolitan change; Plant level data

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LABOR MARKET; MANUFACTURING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28344434312     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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