Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 499, 2004, Pages

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a,b   Harmon, Colm ^c,d   Walker, Ian ^e,f   Zhu, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 8644255893     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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