Life cycle and migration to urban and rural areas: Estimation of a mixed logit model on French data

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 789-824

  Détang Dessendre, Cécile ^a   Goffette Nagot, Florence ^b,c   Piguet, Virginie ^a  

^a Centre d'Economie et Sociologie Appliquees a l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c GATE Lyon Saint Etienne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 52649098428     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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