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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
Susan Eckstein
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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