Migration under uncertainty: "Try your luck" or "wait and see"

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 331-347

  O'Connell, Paul G J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MIGRATION DECISION; MIGRATION MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0031468149     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-4146.00057     Document Type: Article

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