Getting Started and Getting Ahead: Career Dynamics of Immigrants

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-365

  Bhagat, Rabi S ^a   London, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042597342     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-4822(99)00024-8     Document Type: Article

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