Migration flows and quality of life in a metropolitan area: The case of Barcelona-Spain

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-259

  Faggian, Alessandra ^a   Royuela, Vicente ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barcelona; Metropolitan areas; Migration; Negative Binomial models; Overinflation; Poisson models; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955227286     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-010-9108-4     Document Type: Article

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