Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Economics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 146-152

  Stark, Oded ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e ESCE Economic and Social Research Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Relative deprivation; The Gini coefficient; The incentive to migrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645889968     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.09.015     Document Type: Article

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