The post-enlargement migration experience in the Baltic labor markets

EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 255-304

  Hazans, Mihails ^a,c   Philips, Kaia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS)   (Latvia)

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EID: 84872839101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02242-5_10     Document Type: Chapter

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