Testing and Extending the Escalator Hypothesis: Does the Pattern of Post-migration Income Gains in Toronto Suggest Productivity and/or Learning Effects?

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3447-3465

  Newbold, K Bruce ^a   Brown, W Mark ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; LEARNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; MIGRATORY POPULATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84867690843     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012443859     Document Type: Article

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