Migration, trade and unemployment

Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heid, Benedikt ^a   Larch, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel estimators; Fixed effects instrumental variable panel estimators; International trade; Migration; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865092894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-4     Document Type: Article

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