Returns to education in China's urban labour market: Evidence from matched employer-employee data for Shanghai

Urban China in the New Era: Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 169-183

  Mishra, Vinod ^a   Smyth, Russell ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54227-5_9     Document Type: Chapter

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