A theoretical and empirical analysis of family migration and household production: comment.
A commentary on G.M. Shields and M.P. Shields' “A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Family Migration and Household Production: U.S. 1980-1985,” which appeared in the Southern Economic Journal, April 1993, pp. 768-82. In their model of migration in a utility maximization framework, Shields and S...
| Published in: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 63; pp. 255 - 259 |
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Southern Economic Association
July 1996
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