Industrial diversity and metropolitan unemployment rate

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-172

  Mizuno, Keizo ^a   Mizutani, Fumitoshi ^b   Nakayama, Noriyoshi ^c  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; LOCATION THEORY; METROPOLITAN AREA; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33645234551     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-005-0046-2     Document Type: Article

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