Returns to human capital in Pakistan: A gender disaggregated analysis

Pakistan Development Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-28

  Nasir, Zafar Mueen ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0036523771     PISSN: 00309729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30541/v41i1pp.1-28     Document Type: Article

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