The issue whether regional development can be associated with population driving employment changes or employment driving population changes has recently attracted considerable interest, according to the authors. In this paper a preliminary attempt is described in clarifying these matters, by focusing on an articulate literature of 37 so-called ‘Carlino-Mills studies’.
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