Does migration equalise regional unemployment rates? Evidence from Australia

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-20

  Groenewold, Nicolaas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; INEQUALITIES; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH REPORT; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDIES; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMIC MODEL; EMPLOYMENT; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; INEQUALITIES; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANIA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDIES; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGES;

AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0030621729     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1997.tb00678.x     Document Type: Article

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