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Immigrant Niches and Immigrant Networks in the U.S. Labor Market

Susan Eckstein, Giovanni Peri
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.01
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aProfessor of sociology and international relations at Boston University
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bProfessor of economics at the University of California–Davis
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vol. 4 no. 1 1-17
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.01

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  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Eckstein, Susan, and Giovanni Peri. 2018. “Immigrant Niches and Immigrant Networks in the U.S. Labor Market.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.01. We thank participants in the “New Immigrant U.S. Labor Market Niches in the Era of Globalization” conference for their comments and suggestions and the Russell Sage Foundation for its support of the project. Direct correspondence to: Susan Eckstein at seckstei@bu.edu, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 100 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215; and Giovanni Peri at gperi@ucdavis.edu, Department of Economics, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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