Language as both human capital and ethnicity

International Migration Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 147-177

  Pendakur, Krishna ^a   Pendakur, Ravi ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Canadian Heritage   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; LANGUAGE; MINORITY GROUP; WAGE DETERMINATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0036525486     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2002.tb00075.x     Document Type: Article

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