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Nowcasting Migration Using Statistics of Online Queries

Tsapenko I.P., Yurevich M.A.

Volume 15, Issue 1, 2022

Tsapenko I.P., Yurevich M.A. (2022). Nowcasting migration using statistics of online queries. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 15(1), 74–89. DOI: 10.15838/esc.2022.1.79.4

DOI: 10.15838/esc.2022.1.79.4

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