Immigrant wage differentials, ethnicity and occupational segregation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 645-671

  Elliott, Robert J R ^a   Lindley, Joanne K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Earnings; Occupation

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949122553     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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