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The urban-rural manufacturing shift is well documented for the EC as well as for single countries like the UK or the FRG (see Keeble, Owens, Thompson 1982, 1983 for the EC; Fothergill, Gudgin 1982 for the UK; Müller 1983, Peschel 1983 and Hoppen 1979 for the FRG). At the EC level, more than 50 per cent of the total manufacturing job loss suffered by the entire nine-member European Community between 1973 and 1981 was concentrated in the small group of 21 most highly-urbanised regions, as defined by the presence of very large urban agglomerations (over 100,000 inhabitants) and high population densities (Keeble 1984, 3, see Table 1). In the FRG the cores of the five most important agglomerations (Hamburg, Rhein-Ruhr, Rhein-Main, Stuttgart, Munich, see Map 1) lost 22 per cent of the industrial employment between 1962 and 1977 as compared to a 13 per cent loss for the total FRG.
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Ewers, HJ. (1986). Spatial Dimensions of Technological Developments and Employment Effects. In: Nijkamp, P. (eds) Technological Change, Employment and Spatial Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 270. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46578-9_8
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