Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2009
focuses on 1984-2007 employment changes for the eight Core Cities and their city regions: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds …, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. City regions are defined on a consistent functional basis and … allowance is made for discontinuities in the jobs time-series. These provincial city regions are found to have suffered …