Voting with your feet in the United Kingdom: Using cross-migration rates to estimate relative living standards

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-23

  Wall, Howard J ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Interregional migration; Quality of life; Standard of living

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244399145     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00011487     Document Type: Article

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