Japan's growing economic activities and the attainment patterns of foreign-born Japanese workers in the United States, 1979 to 1989

International Migration Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 511-534

  Fang, Di ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARNINGS LEVEL; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; JAPANESE WORKERS; MANAGERIAL ATTAINMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC ATTAINMENT;

ARTICLE; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FAR EAST; FOREIGNERS; IMMIGRANTS; INCOME; JAPAN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL STATUS; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FOREIGNERS; IMMIGRANTS; INCOME; JAPAN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL STATUS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAR EAST; INCOME; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

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EID: 0030475307     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547392     Document Type: Review

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