Immigrants in a booming economy: Analysing their earnings and welfare dependence

Labour

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 789-808

  Barrett, Alan ^a   McCarthy, Yvonne ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INCOME; SOCIAL WORK; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP; WELFARE IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36348931098     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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