Changing spatial concentration of sectoral employment in China's Pearl River Delta 1990-2005

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 261-277

  Cheng, Fangfang ^a,b   Boerboom, Luc ^b   Geertman, Stan ^a   Hooimeijer, Pieter ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; Economic geography; Pearl River Delta; Policy; Sectoral employment; Spatial concentration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879500657     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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