Metropolitan area job accessibility and the working poor: Exploring local spatial variations of geographic context

Urban Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 498-522

  Boschmann, E ^a   Kwan, Mei Po ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job access; Metropolitan area; Spatial variation; Working poor

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; JOB SEARCH; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952195360     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.31.4.498     Document Type: Article

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