The origins of employer demand for immigrants in a new destination: The salience of soft skills in a volatile economy

New faces in New Places : The Changing Geography of American Immigration

Volumn 9781610443814, Issue , 2008, Pages 124-148

  Donato, Katharine M ^a   Bankston, Carl L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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