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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
Bo Zhou
bDoctoral candidate at the State University of New York at Albany

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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 Jan 2018, 4 (1) 78-95; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.05
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- Article
- Abstract
- 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
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
- Figures & Data
- Info & Metrics
- References
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