The economics of immigration: Household and employment dynamics

Deploying a surplus-labor theoretical framework, I incorporate results from interviews with South Asian families in Chicago to investigate how immigrants juggle and assume a variety of revenue positions: in nuclear and extended families, as full-time wage earners, as home-based independent producers...

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Main Author: Safri, Maliha
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3215891