Part 3: Interethnic marriages and economic performance: I'll marry you if you get me a job: Marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 116-126

  Furtado, Delia ^a,b   Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Immigration; Mixed marriages; Probability theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149118507     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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