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Prevalence of activities in later life across European regions

By: Martin Lakomý  
Open Access
|Oct 2020

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Language: English
Page range: 14 - 27
Submitted on: Sep 2, 2019
Accepted on: May 10, 2020
Published on: Oct 2, 2020
Published by: University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Faculty of Economics
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