Human Capital, Growth, and Inequality in Russia

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 618-643

  Fan, Chengze Simon ^a   Overland, Jody ^b   Spagat, Michael ^c  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative dynamics; Growth; Human capital; Inequality; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039090298     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.1999.1617     Document Type: Article

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