Voting with their feet: Jobs versus amenities

Growth and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-110

  Ferguson, Mark ^a   Ali, Kamar ^b   Olfert, M Rose ^b   Partridge, Mark ^c  

^a Sask Pork   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; AMENITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; JOB SEARCH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947583908     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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