Immigrant mental health and unemployment

Economic Record

Volumn 82, Issue 259, 2006, Pages 445-459

  Kennedy, Steven ^a   Mcdonald, James Ted ^b  

^a Australian Treasury   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; LABOR MARKET; MENTAL HEALTH; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33750037932     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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