Micro-Level Determinants of Remittances from Recent Migrants to Canada

International Migration

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 124-139

  Unheim, Per ^a   Rowlands, Dane ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE;

CANADA;

EID: 84863864360     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00718.x     Document Type: Article

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