Immigrant settlement and employment suburbanisation in the US: Is there a spatial mismatch?

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 979-1002

  Liu, Cathy Yang ^a   Painter, Gary ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENT POPULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBANIZATION;

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EID: 84863294258     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098011405695     Document Type: Article

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