Chapter 1 Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-67

  Rubinstein, Yona ^a   Weiss, Yoram ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 34248511951     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)01001-4     Document Type: Review

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