On kin groups and wages in the Ghanaian labour market

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-151

  Collier, Paul ^a   Garg, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033463994     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00122     Document Type: Article

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