Education Returns Across Quantiles of the Wage Function: Alternative Explanations for Returns to Education by Race in South Africa

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 335-339

  Mwabu, Germano ^a,b   Schultz, T Paul ^b  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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