Migration and labour market integration in late nineteenth-century England and Wales

Economic History Review

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 697-734

  Boyer, George R ^a   Hatton, Timothy J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL STUDY; LABOUR MARKET; MARKET INTEGRATION; MIGRATION FLOWS; POPULATION MIGRATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UK, ENGLAND; UK, WALES;

EID: 0031413978     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.00075     Document Type: Review

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