Does a rising tide lift all metropolitan boats? Assessing poverty dynamics by metropolitan size and county type

Growth and Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283-312

  Partridge, Mark D ^a   Rickman, Dan S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; POVERTY; URBAN ECONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43149099213     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2008.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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