Cities, skills, and inequality

Growth and Change

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-353

  Wheeler, Christopher H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABOR MARKET; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAGE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28244472999     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2005.00280.x     Document Type: Review

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