The rise and fall of asylum: What happened and why?

Economic Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 535, 2009, Pages

  Hatton, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMMIGRATION POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 59349107057     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02228.x     Document Type: Article

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