Who Stays? Who Goes? Selective Emigration Among the Foreign-Born

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  van Hook, Jennifer ^a   Zhang, Weiwei ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emigration; Foreign born; Immigration

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EMIGRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMMIGRATION POLICY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SIMULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651509401     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-010-9183-0     Document Type: Article

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