Remittances and inequality: A question of migration stage and geographic scale

Economic Geography

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-25

  Jones, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Migration stage; Remittances; Spatial scale; Wage labor migration

Indexed keywords

INCOME INEQUALITY; LABOUR MIGRATION; MIGRANTS' REMITTANCES;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; INCOME; INEQUALITIES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MEXICO; MICROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; ORIGIN; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMITTANCES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TIME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; INCOME; INEQUALITIES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO; MICROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; ORIGIN; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMITTANCES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; INCOME; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031819122     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1998.tb00102.x     Document Type: Article

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