What explains emigration out of Latin America?

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1871-1890

  Clark, Ximena ^a   Hatton, Timothy J ^b   Williamson, Jeffrey G ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Emigration; Immigration; Inequality; Latin America; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT;

LATIN AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13644283649     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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