Seeking Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
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Keywords
Immigrants; Second Generation; Labour Market Outcomes; Canada and the United States;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2009-12-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2009-12-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
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