Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 255-306

  Deere, Donald R ^a   Vesovic, Jelena ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; enrollment; human capital; income; wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049123018     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)01006-3     Document Type: Review

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