Returns to education and wage equations

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-531

  Pereira, Pedro Telhado ^a   Martins, Pedro Silva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

META-ANALYSIS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2042483829     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000217571     Document Type: Article

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