Area Disparities in Britain: Understanding the Contribution of People vs. Place Through Variance Decompositions

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 745-763

  Gibbons, Stephen ^a   Overman, Henry G ^a   Pelkonen, Panu ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84928998523     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obes.12043     Document Type: Article

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