Internal migration and employment: Macro flows and micro motives

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1948-1964

  Morrison, Philip S ^a   Clark, William A V ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; INTERNAL MIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052554919     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43531     Document Type: Article

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