Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others?
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JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2017-07-02 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2017-07-02 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MIG-2017-07-02 (Economics of Human Migration)
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