A cross-national study of the effects of family migration on women's labour market status: Some difficulties with integrating microdata from two censuses

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 465-480

  Boyle, Paul ^a   Cooke, Thomas J ^b   Halfacree, Keith ^c   Smith, Darren ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment status; Gender; Great Britain; Tied migration; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036420952     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00248     Document Type: Article

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