Egalitarian and elitist education systems as the basis for international differences in wage inequality

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 445-468

  Wälde, Klaus ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biased technological change; D33; Distribution of labour income; Elitist and egalitarian education systems; H52; O33; Quality of education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037500345     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(99)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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