Skills, education, and Canadian provincial disparity

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 965-991

  Coulombe, Serge ^a   Tremblay, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROECONOMICS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SKILLED LABOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34848903299     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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