The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000

Globalizations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-348

  Arends Kuenning, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 51249139415     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747730600870100     Document Type: Article

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