Underemployment across immigrant generations

Social Science Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1415-1430

  Slack, Tim ^a   Jensen, Leif ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Immigrants; Segmented Assimilation; Underemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35549007940     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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