Migration, risk, and liquidity constraints in El Salvador

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 893-925

  Halliday, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; MIGRATION; PANEL DATA; PROBABILITY; RISK;

CENTRAL AMERICA; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 33746494111     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503584     Document Type: Article

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