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David A. Coleman, Contrasting Age Structures of Western Europe and of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Demographic Curiosity or Labor Resource?, Population and Development Review, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 523-555
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