Gender and ethnic concentration and employment prospects for Mexican-American migrants

Growth and Change

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-43

  Shumway, J Matthew ^a   Cooke, Thomas J ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LABOUR MARKET; MEXICAN AMERICANS; RACIAL DISPARITY;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; GENDER ISSUES; HISPANIC; HISPANICS; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENDER ISSUES; HISPANICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

USA;

EID: 0031745763     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2257.00074     Document Type: Article

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