The labour-market performance of recent migrants

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 496-517

  Clark, Ken ^a,b   Drinkwater, Stephen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earnings; Employment; Immigrants; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MIGRANT WORKER; STATE ROLE; WAGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58449090418     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grn023     Document Type: Article

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