Hispanic ethnicity, gender, and the change in the LEP-earnings penalty in the United States during the 1990s

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1295-1318

  Mora, Marie T ^a,b   Dávila, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Department of Economics and Finance ^*  (United States)

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EID: 33750908263     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2006.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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