Unravelling the global city debate on social inequality: A firm-level analysis of wage inequality in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Urban Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2715-2729

  van der Waal, Jeroen ^a   Burgers, Jack ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPLOYMENT; GLOBALIZATION; URBAN ECONOMY; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP; WORLD CITY;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449999555     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009344944     Document Type: Article

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