Career progression and comparative advantage

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 679-689

  Yamaguchi, Shintaro ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human capital; Occupational choice; Occupational sorting; Skills; Structural estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953545487     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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