Immigrants' access to financial services and asset accumulation

Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 285-317

  Osili, Una Okonkwo ^a   Paulson, Anna L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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