Highly educated immigrants and native occupational choice

Industrial Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 385-411

  Peri, Giovanni ^a,b   Sparber, Chad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; IMMIGRANT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; OCCUPATION; SKILLED LABOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959707243     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2011.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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