Skill premium and wage differences: The case of China

2009 2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, KAM 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 115-118

  Liu, Lan ^a  

^a JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Skill premium; Skill biased technology change; Wage differences

Indexed keywords

CHINESE ECONOMY; PANEL DATA; SKILL PREMIUM; TECHNOLOGY CHANGE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

WAGES;

EID: 77951170239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/KAM.2009.239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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