Revisiting the family investment hypothesis

Labour Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-393

  Cobb Clark, Deborah ^a   Crossley, Thomas F ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family investment hypothesis; Immigration

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642445434     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2003.05.002     Document Type: Article

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