Emigration and living standards in Ireland since the Famine
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Emigration and living standards in Ireland since the Famine.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Population Economics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0933-1433,1432-1475
DOI: 10.1007/bf00180876