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Latino Immigration and the Low-Skill Urban Labor Market: The Case of Atlanta†

  1. Cathy Yang Liu*

Article first published online: 23 APR 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00858.x

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Social Science Quarterly

Social Science Quarterly

Volume 94, Issue 1, pages 131–157, March 2013

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Liu, C. Y. (2013), Latino Immigration and the Low-Skill Urban Labor Market: The Case of Atlanta. Social Science Quarterly, 94: 131–157. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00858.x

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  1. Georgia State University

*Direct correspondence to Cathy Yang Liu, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3992, Atlanta, GA 30303 <cyliu@gsu.edu>.

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    The author will share all data and coding information with those wishing to replicate the study. This research was supported by the Fiscal Research Center at Georgia State University. The author would like to thank David Sjoquist and SSQ reviewers for helpful comments. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2010 Annual Meetings of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Atlanta, GA.

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  1. Issue published online: 4 FEB 2013
  2. Article first published online: 23 APR 2012

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