Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 909-930

  Carrington, William J ^a   Detragiache, Enrica ^b   Vishwanath, Tara ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOUR MIGRATION; MIGRATION MODEL; MIGRATORY FLOWS; MOVING COSTS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030319344     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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