Winners and losers among a refugee-hosting population

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 769-809

  Maystadt, Jean François ^a   Verwimp, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SOLVAY BRUSSELS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LIVING STANDARD; PERCEPTION; REFUGEE;

BURUNDI; KAGERA; RWANDA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84903217203     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676458     Document Type: Article

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