Private returns to education in urban China

Economic Change and Restructuring

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-150

  Qiu, Tian ^a   Hudson, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity models; Human capital; Mincer

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN CAPITAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODELING; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; URBAN AREA; WAGE GAP;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 77953361685     PISSN: 15739414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10644-009-9081-9     Document Type: Article

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