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Brown, D.L., Glasgow, N., Kulcsar, L.J., Bolender, B.C., Arguillas, MJ. (2008). Rural Retirement Migration: Past, Present and Future. In: Rural Retirement Migration. The Springer Series On Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6895-9_1

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