Populating regional Australia: What are the impacts of non-resident labour force practices on demographic growth in resource regions?

Rural Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-137

  Rolfe, John ^a   Kinnear, Susan ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demography; DIDO; Economic impacts; Economic modelling; FIFO; Regional policy; Resource communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883722803     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.2013.22.2.125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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