The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination

Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 405-430

  Murnane, Richard J ^a   Willett, John B ^a   Levy, Frank ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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