Labor market assimilation of immigrants in Spain: Employment at the expense of bad job-matches?

Spanish Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-107

  Fernández, Cristina ^a   Ortega, Carolina ^b  

^a BBVA University Institute for Economic and Social Analysis University of Alcalá   (Spain)

^b CReAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Immigration; Labor force participation; Overeducation; Temporary contracts; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649102024     PISSN: 14355469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10108-007-9032-4     Document Type: Article

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