Land of Opportunity? Comparing earnings profiles of immigrants in Norway and the United States;Mulighetenes land?: Inntektsprofiler for innvandrere til Norge og USA

Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 637-658

  Barth, Erling ^a   Bratsberg, Bernt ^a   Raaum, Oddbjørn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Age Earnings profiles; Immigrant earnings; Norway and the united states compared

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EID: 11144295664     PISSN: 0040716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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