Forecasting regional employment with shift - Share and ARIMA modelling

Regional Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 543-551

  Mayor, Matías ^a   López, Ana Jesús ^a   Pérez, Rigoberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economically Active Population Survey (EPA); Forecasting; Scenarios; Shift share

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS;

ASTURIAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34347219746     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400601120205     Document Type: Article

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