Internal Migration in Romania. Revisiting the Harris-Todaro Model of Migration

SILAGHI Monica Ioana Pop and Ecaterina Tomoiagă

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023, issue 02

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Keywords: rural-urban migration; Harris-Todaro model; period seemingly unrelated regression; Romania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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