Innovations in International Migration for use in Global Population Projections
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for a paper to be presented at 27th IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea. Conference session: 601 International migration Guy Abel, Nikola Sander and Samir K.C. Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences & International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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