The power of cross-border labour market immobility

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-107

  Van Houtum, Henk ^a   Van Der Velde, Martin ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borders; Identity; Labour market; Spatial immobility; Threshold of indifference

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MOBILITY; LABOR POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1342332956     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0040-747x.2004.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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