Forced or free movers? The motives, voluntariness and selectivity of interregional migration in the Nordic countries

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-72

  Lundholm, Emma ^a   Garvill, Jörgen ^a   Malmberg, Gunnar ^a   Westin, Kerstin ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Interregional migration; Labour market; Life course; Motives; Nordic countries

Indexed keywords

LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; YOUNG POPULATION;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 4644323509     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.315     Document Type: Article

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