Labour-market assimilation of foreign workers in Italy

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 518-542

  Venturini, Alessandra ^a   Villosio, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Collegio Carlo Alberto ^*

Author keywords

Employment assimilation; Wage assimilation

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; MIGRANT WORKER; WAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58449128310     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grn030     Document Type: Article

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