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The Rise of Market-Based Job Search Institutions and Job Niches for Low-Skilled Chinese Immigrants

Zai Liang, Bo Zhou
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 78-95; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.05
Zai Liang
aProfessor of sociology at the State University of New York at Albany
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bDoctoral candidate at the State University of New York at Albany
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    • THE EMERGENCE OF MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH INSTITUTIONS
    • NETWORK-BASED VERSUS MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH PROCESSES
    • DATA COLLECTION FOR THE STUDY
    • THE INCREASING DIVERSIFICATION OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS
    • THE SPATIAL DIFFUSION OF CHINESE IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS
    • A CHINESE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER AND THE NEW IMMIGRANT JOB NICHES
    • IMPLICATIONS OF A MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH PROCESS
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