Accounting For Urban China'S Rising Income Inequality: The Roles Of Labor Market, Human Capital, And Marriage Market Factors
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- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
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