Economic returns to speaking 'standard Mandarin' among migrants in China's urban labour market

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 342-352

  Gao, Wenshu ^a   Smyth, Russell ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Language; Migrants

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; LANGUAGE; MIGRANT WORKER; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SKILLED LABOR;

CHINA;

EID: 79952186594     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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