Self-selection, earnings and Chicano migration: Differences between return and onward migrants

International Migration Review

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 979-994

  Shumway, J Matthew ^a   Hall, Greg ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICANO PEOPLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARNINGS DIFFERENTIAL; ONWARD MIGRANTS; RETURN MIGRANTS; RETURN MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HISPANICS; INCOME; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETURN MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WAGE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HISPANICS; INCOME; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETURN MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAGES;

AMERICAS; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GEOGRAPHY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; INCOME; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

USA;

EID: 0030391196     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547600     Document Type: Article

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