Is the growing skill premium a purely metropolitan issue?

Economics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-75

  Chung, Chul ^a   Clark, Jeremy ^b   Kim, Bonggeun ^c  

^a Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Metropolitan areas; Skilled wage premium

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549098515     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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