Immigrants' Income and Family Migration
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Keywords
Immigrant; wage earnings; labor participation; family income; family investments; internal migration; immigrant women; family migration;All these keywords.
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- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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