How important is homeland education for refugees' economic position in the Netherlands?

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 219-246

  Hartog, Joop ^a,b,c   Zorlu, Aslan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Earnings; Education; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349133964     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-007-0142-y     Document Type: Article

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