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By now measures of employment “access” and “potential” have been widely diffused in the literature on regional economics and transport planning. Pooler (1995) gives a brief review of accessibility measures, indicating that these concepts date back to the 1930s. According to standard economic intuition, the employment access of a residential area increases with its proximity to concentrations of employment opportunities. The various indices of accessibility which have been proposed merely formalize and quantify this notion. In this paper, we incorporate the spatial distribution of the demand for educational qualifications and the spatial distribution of the supply of educated workers into this framework.
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Hårsman, B., Quigley, J.M. (1998). Education, Job Requirements, and Commuting: An Analysis of Network Flows. In: Beckmann, M.J., Johannsson, B., Snickars, F., Thord, R. (eds) Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60318-1_14
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