High skills pay off: The changing wage structure during economic transition in Poland

Economics of Transition

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-112

  Rutkowski, Jan ^a  

^a World Bank Poland Resident Mission   (Poland)

Author keywords

Earnings function; Earnings inequality; Economic transition; Poland; Returns to education; Wage structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844344240     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.1996.tb00163.x     Document Type: Article

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