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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
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Janeria A. Easley
bPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
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Angela R. Dixon
cGraduate student in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
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