Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-57

  Chiswick, Barry R ^a   Miller, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Earnings; Ethnic concentrations; Immigrants; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036002987     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00003838     Document Type: Article

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