Mike Coombes, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, José M. Casado-Díaz, Instituto de Economía Internacional and Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado , Alicante, Spain
The evolution of Local Labour Market Areas in contrasting region (assigned to theme H1)

In many European local labour markets, a growing minority of workers are making longer commuting trips. One consequence for research into journey-to-work flows, which usually seeks to identify the boundaries of local labour market areas (LLMAs), is that these boundaries represent a ¡¥snap shot¡¦ of an increasingly volatile pattern. The challenge for regional science is how best to represent the way LLMAs evolve. «Is it sufficient to simply update maps, using a consistent method which is applied to successive ¡¥snap-shot¡¦ datasets? This approach will be illustrated in contrasting regions. «Is it possible to produce new approaches to analysis which can better draw attention to those areas where change has been rather more, or less, strong? The paper will end with some explorations in pursuit of this aim.

submitted 2005-05-01 12:00:04.650
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