Immigrant Networks and Their Implications forOccupational Choice and Wages

This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation ofimmigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups havegrown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine theextent to which this growth can be attributed to network effects...

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Year of publication:	2007-12-01
Authors:	Patel, Krishna ; Vella, Francis
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Netzwerk \| Migrant <Einwanderer> \| Berufswahl

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Extent:	2048 bytes 50 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3217 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; USA
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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