Highly educated immigrants in the Norwegian labour market: Permanent disadvantage?

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 507-526

  Brekke, Idunn ^a   Mastekaasa, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Earnings; Employment; Immigrants; University graduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249127760     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017008093483     Document Type: Article

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