Fertility and wage rates in an overlapping-generations model

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 224-234

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Junsen ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELLING APPROACH; OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL; POPULATION FERTILITY; WATER RATE;

EID: 0030778696     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/136368     Document Type: Article

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