Differential rewards to, and contributions of, education in urban China's segmented labor markets

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-189

  Maurer Fazio, Margaret ^a   Dinh, Ngan ^b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LABOR MARKET; URBAN POPULATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 9744248736     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2004.00243.x     Document Type: Review

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