A reluctant founding father: Placing Jacob Mincer in the history of (labor) economics

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 673-695

  Teixeira, Pedro Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

human capital; Jacob Mincer; Labour economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858954428     PISSN: 09672567     EISSN: 14695936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2011.629055     Document Type: Article

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