Immigrant "quality" in Canada: More direct evidence of human capital content, 1956-1994

International Migration Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 156-175

  Akbari, Ather H ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; IMMIGRANT POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN CAPITAL; HUMAN RESOURCES; IMMIGRANTS; METHODOLOGY; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NATIVE-BORN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDIES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN CAPITAL; HUMAN RESOURCES; IMMIGRANTS; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NATIVE-BORN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDIES;

AMERICAS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH MANPOWER; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

CANADA;

EID: 0032804704     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547326     Document Type: Article

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