Professors and hamburgers: An international comparison of real academic salaries

Applied Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 869-876

  Ong, Li Lian ^a   Mitchell, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCHANGE RATE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0034066267     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368400322200     Document Type: Article

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