Testing Becker's prediction on assortative mating on spouses' wages

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-110

  Zhang, Junsen ^a   Liu, Pak Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARRIAGE; WAGE DETERMINATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0037413075     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1558757     Document Type: Article

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