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