Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital

Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 204-221

  Cutler, David M ^a   Glaeser, Edward L ^a   Vigdor, Jacob L ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748950206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489228.009     Document Type: Chapter

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