Linking residential relocation desires and behaviour with life domain satisfaction

Urban Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 870-890

  Nowok, Beata ^a   Findlay, Allan ^b   McCollum, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

life domain satisfaction; mobility desires; panel models; residential migration; subjective wellbeing

Indexed keywords

LIFE SATISFACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; POPULATION MIGRATION; RELOCATION;

EID: 85042168977     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098016665972     Document Type: Article

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