The psychic costs of migration: evidence from Irish return migrants
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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants
The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants Within the economics literature, the “psychic costs” of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Population Economics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0933-1433,1432-1475
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-012-0438-4