Migration as a consumption activity

International Migration

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-58

  Wallace, Suzanne B ^a   DeLorme Jr , Charles D ^b   Kamerschen, David R ^b  

^a Central College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION ACTIVITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOCATION SPECIFIC UTILITY INDEX; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MIGRATION DECISION;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMPTION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; HOUSEHOLDS; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MIGRATION, INTERNAL; MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMPTION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; HOUSEHOLDS; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION, INTERNAL; MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030735418     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2435.00003     Document Type: Article

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