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Ian R. Gordon

Working paper

Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption

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...