Leapfrogging the Melting Pot? European Immigrants’ Intergenerational Mobility Across the 20th Century
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intergenerational mobility; European immigrants; education; integration;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2021-09-20 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ISF-2021-09-20 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-MIG-2021-09-20 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2021-09-20 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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