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Exploring Regional Disparities in Employment Growth

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Australia has experienced a economic growth since the 1991 recession and convergence in labour market outcomes across space might reasonably have been expected given this 17 year span. The orthodox view of regional development suggests that “provided there are no major barriers to the operation of market forces, in an integrated national space economy there are strong pressures leading to the general convergence of regional incomes over time” (Martin and Sunley 1998: 201).

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    Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, Employed Persons by Region, Sex, Industry division data cube.

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  1. Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    William Mitchell

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  1. , Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

    Karima Kourtit

  2. , Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

  3. School of Public Policy, George Mason University, University Drive 4400, Fairfax, 22030, Virgin Islands, USA

    Roger R. Stough

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Table 6 Summary average annual rates of employment growth and dispersion, various periods
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Table 7 The Australian and New Zealand standard industrial classification at one-digit level
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Table 8 Regional mnemonics
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Mitchell, W. (2011). Exploring Regional Disparities in Employment Growth. In: Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P., Stough, R. (eds) Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_16

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