Who gets what jobs in China's countryside? A multinomial logit analysis

Oxford Development Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-190

  Cook, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL HOUSEHOLD; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 0031822918     PISSN: 13600818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600819808424152     Document Type: Article

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