Occupational choice, educational attainment, and fertility

Economics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-234

  Kimura, Masako ^a   Yasui, Daishin ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital skill complementarity; Fertility; Occupational choice; Overlapping generations model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846304715     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.035     Document Type: Article

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