Are Labour Markets Necessarily ‘Local’? Spatiality, Segmentation and Scale
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Airlines) raises questions about geography's faith in the inherently 'local' constitution of labour markets. Through an examination of the job reallocation process after redundancy, the paper suggests that multiple labour markets use and articulate scale in different ways. It argues that labour market rescaling processes are enacted at the critical moment of recruitment, where social networks, personal aspirations and employer preferences combine to shape workers destinations.
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