Does the market pay off? Earnings returns to education in Urban China

American Sociological Review

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-442

  Wu, Xiaogang ^a   Xie, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LABOR MARKET; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0042766990     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1519731     Document Type: Article

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