Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills
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Keywords
language skills; education; health; fertility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2015-11-15 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2015-11-15 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2015-11-15 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2015-11-15 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2015-11-15 (Economics of Human Migration)
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