Do selection criteria make a difference? Visa category and the labour market status of immigrants to Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 76, Issue 232, 2000, Pages 15-31

  Cobb Clark, Deborah A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MARKET; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034098699     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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