The predicted earnings differential and immigrant self-employment in Sweden

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 619-630

  Hammarstedt, Mats ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; INCOME; SELF EMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33646383389     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500397069     Document Type: Article

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