Measuring immigrant wage growth using matched CPS files

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 239-249

  Duleep, Harriet Orcutt ^a   Regets, Mark C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LABOUR MARKET; WAGE LEVEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CENSUSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES;

USA;

EID: 0031131570     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061702     Document Type: Article

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