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Black Immigration, Occupational Niches, and Earnings Disparities Between U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Blacks in the United States
Tod G. Hamilton, Janeria A. Easley, Angela R. Dixon
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 60-77; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.04
Tod G. Hamilton
aAssistant professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
Janeria A. Easley
bPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
Angela R. Dixon
cGraduate student in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University

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