Do migrants react to infrastructure difference between urban and rural areas? Development of an extended Harris-Todaro model

Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 68-88

  Issah, Ismail ^a   Khan, Tariq Y ^a   Sasaki, Komei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; MODELING; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 15844369006     PISSN: 09170553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-940X.2005.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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