Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility: A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 326-350

  Minns, Chris ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0013419751     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.2000.0746     Document Type: Article

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