Luxury, Necessity, and Anachronistic Workers: Does the United States Need Unskilled Immigrant Labor?

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1008-1028

  Bean, Frank D ^a   Brown, Susan K ^a   Bachmeier, James D ^b   Gubernskaya, Zoya ^a   Smith, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fertility declines; labor market competition; less skilled immigrant workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863593339     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764212441784     Document Type: Article

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