Gaining from rural migrants: Migrant employment strategies and socioeconomic implications for rural labour markets

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-276

  Kasimis, Charalambos ^a   Papadopoulos, Apostolos G ^b   Pappas, Costas ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; MIGRANT WORKER; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EPIRUS; GREECE;

EID: 77954744721     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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