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Return migration and metropolitan-nonmetropolitan population composition

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This paper examines the extent to which female "return migrants" to Puerto Rico return to their area of birth or to a different area, thereby contributing to a redistribution of the island's population, and the extent to which those who do return to their area of birth have different socioeconomic characteristics than those who return to a different area.

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  1. Center for the Study of Population, Florida State University, 32306-4063, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

    Robert H. Weller, William J. Serow & Kevin Wieser

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Weller, R.H., Serow, W.J. & Wieser, K. Return migration and metropolitan-nonmetropolitan population composition. Popul Environ 11, 273–284 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01256460

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