Earnings Returns to Occupational Status: Are Asian Americans Disadvantaged?

Social Science Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-65

  Icel, John ^a  

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EID: 0039864459     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ssre.1998.0634     Document Type: Article

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