Population growth, technological adoption, and economic outcomes in the information era

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 749-774

  Beaudry, Paul ^a   Green, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human and physical capital accumulation; Information revolution; Population growht; Wage structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036814902     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.2002.0189     Document Type: Article

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