TY - Working paper AU - Ioannis Kaplanis AU - Ian R. Gordon PY - 2012 T1 - Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption PB - Spatial Economics Research Centre DO - https://doi.org/APO-31957 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/31957 AB - Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The question is whether there was simply a delay before London conformed to the global city model, or whether another distinct cause was at work in both cases. ER -