Friendship ties and geographical mobility: Evidence from Great Britain

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 427-442

  Belot, Michèle ^b   Ermisch, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Friendship formation; Geographical mobility; Social ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249126532     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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