Interregional labour mobility, inequality and wage convergence

Applied Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 931-941

  Parikh, Ashok ^a   Van Leuvensteijn, Michiel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR MOBILITY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 0037670175     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684022000035827     Document Type: Article

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