Intergenerational mobility under private vs. public education

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 399-417

  Davies, James B ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b,c   Zeng, Jinli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education regimes; Inequality; Mobility

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; MOBILITY; WAGE;

EID: 27844578249     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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