The Receipt of Transfer Payments by Immigrants in Sweden

International Migration

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 239-268

  Hammarstedt, Mats ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SOCIAL POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE PROVISION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0034126657     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2435.00109     Document Type: Article

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