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Migration is a shared topic within social sciences attracting interest from members of all sub-disciplines. This attention reflects both the importance of the flows and the complexity of the behaviour. This article presents a short overview of the basic theoretical perspectives on individual migration decision making, and it considers empirical challenges to bringing these models to the data.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Walker, J.R. (2008). Internal Migration. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1068-2
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