Were there no returns to education in the USSR? Estimates from Soviet-period household data

Labour Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-434

  Katz, Katarina ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender discrimination; J31; P24; Returns to education; Soviet Union; T20; Wage differentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043100129     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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