Urban Unemployment, Informal Sector and Development Policies

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 301-314

  Yabuuchi, Shigemi ^a   Beladi, Hamid ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Harris todaro model; Informal sector; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347238311     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231352     Document Type: Article

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