Immigrant self-employment adjustment: Ethnic groups in the UK

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 163-175

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic minorities; Immigration; Labour market; Self employed workers; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149083864     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720910948465     Document Type: Article

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