No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 387-401

  Pagés, Carmen ^a   Stampini, Marco ^b  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Barriers to entry; Informality; Labor mobility; Latin America; Segmentation; Skills; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249087971     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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