The economic impact of rural-to-urban migration in the United States: Evidence for male labor-force participants

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 937-954

  Rodgers, John L ^a   Rodgers, Joan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NONE

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