The lost race between schooling and technology

Economist

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-78

  Jacobs, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Education; Education subsidies; Technological change; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SKILLED LABOR; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1842635648     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ECOT.0000019527.37426.60     Document Type: Article

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