Professionalisation or hybridisation? Real estate brokers in Metro Cebu, the Philippines, during the boom of the 1990s

Urban Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1321-1343

  Sajor, Edsel E ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR SUPPLY; PROPERTY MARKET;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 22244470075     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500150656     Document Type: Article

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