The new economic geography versus urban economics: An evaluation using local wage rates in Great Britain

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-530

  Fingleton, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC THEORY; URBAN ECONOMY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644897211     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpl006     Document Type: Article

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