Skills on the move: Rethinking the relationship between human capital and immigrant economic mobility

Work and Occupations

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-178

  Hagan, Jacqueline ^a   Lowe, Nichola ^a   Quingla, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

economic mobility; human capital; immigrant labor markets; job jumping hopping; reskilling; skills transferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955528284     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888410397918     Document Type: Article

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