College quality and earnings in the Japanese labor market

Industrial Relations

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 595-617

  Ono, Hiroshi ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LABOR MARKET; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 3242806773     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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