The Impact of Migration on Social Capital: Do Migrants Take Their Bowling Balls with Them?

Growth and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Lesage, James P ^a   Ha, Christina L ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 84857133295     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2011.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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