Irregular Migration and Informal Economy in Southern and Central-Eastern Europe: Breaking the Vicious Cycle?

International Migration

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 129-156

  Maroukis, Thanos ^a   Iglicka, Krystyna ^b   Gmaj, Katarzyna ^b  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b LAZARSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

ARTICLE; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK;

ECONOMICS; EUROPE; EUROPE, EASTERN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROUPS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WORK;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 80051855886     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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