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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 613468 for the research project TEMPER.
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SURVEY-DATA:Do remittances differ depending on migration pathway and length of stay?
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Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
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