Rural-urban migration and self-selection in Tunisia

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-360

  Jelili, Riadh Ben ^a   Mzali, Hassen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0032450818     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1998.tb00721.x     Document Type: Article

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