 Identifying Spatial Labor Markets in Greece from the 2001 Travel-to-Work PatternsSouth-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 2010, vol. 8, issue 1, 111-128 Abstract: The article examines inter-municipal commuting flows in Greece, collected via the 2001 census, and delineates the country’s labor market areas (LMAS). It finds that the LMAS of Athens (3.9 million inhabitants) and Thessaloniki (1.1 million) exceed the homonymous urban-planning complexes by 8 and 15 times, respectively. These LMAS, along with the LMAS of Patras (245 thousand) and Iraklion (233 thousand), host about half the country's population. Another thirty-eight Clusters of municipalities and eight self-contained municipalities of 20-184 thousand Inhabitants jointly host a quarter of the country's population. The picture Is complemented by the presence of ten clusters of municipalities and 607 self contained Municipalities with smaller populations. Overall, the article advances our understanding of how the country functions at the sub-national level. Keywords: labor market areas; functional economic areas; commuting flows; localities; urban and micro-regional policy areas (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:seb:journl:v:8:y:2010:i:1:p:111-128 Access Statistics for this article More articles in South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics from Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region Contact information at EDIRC. |
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