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The Impact of Immigrant Diversity on Wages. The Spanish Experience

The massive waves of migration that have emerged as part of the recent globalization process have attracted increasing attention in the field of economic geography. Traditionally, empirical research on this issue has focused on the possible substitution effect between native and foreign workers in t...

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Published in:Sustainability 2018-09, Vol.10 (9), p.3312
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Workers
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