The factor-market consequences of unskilled immigration to the United States

Labour Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-28

  Greenwood, Michael J ^a   Hunt, Gary L ^b   Kohli, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Curvature conditions; Immigration; Production theory; Semiflexible functional forms; Skill levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031091872     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(96)00020-6     Document Type: Article

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