Relative poverty as a determinant of migration: Evidence from Poland

Economics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 119-122

  Stark, Oded ^a   Micevska, Maja ^b   Mycielski, Jerzy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aggregate relative poverty; Migration; Poland; The Gini coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349139313     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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