University rank and bachelor's labour market positions in China

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 971-979

  Hartog, Joop ^a   Sun, Yuze ^b   Ding, Xiaohao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Labour market sector allocation; University rank; Wages

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

CHINA;

EID: 78149497964     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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