Human capital convergence: A joint estimation approach

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 200-211

  Sab, Randa ^b   Smith, Stephen C ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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