Asian immigrants' reliance on social ties in a multiethnic labor market

Social Forces

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 281-314

  Sanders, Jimy ^a   Nee, Victor ^b   Sernau, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

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EID: 0036751631     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2002.0058     Document Type: Article

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