Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 510-520

  Basilio, Leilanie ^a,b   Bauer, Thomas K ^b,c   Sinning, Mathias ^c,d  

^a Ruhr Graduate School in Economics   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Family investment hypothesis; International migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749108086     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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