Jobs or Amenities? Location choices of interprovincial skilled migrants in China, 2000-2005

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 592-605

  Liu, Ye ^a   Shen, Jianfa ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amenities; China; Destination choices; Institutional arrangements; Interprovincial migration; Skilled migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908510831     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1803     Document Type: Article

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