Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors
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- Ransom, Tyler, 2020. "Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors," IZA Discussion Papers 13370, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Vocational Education; Returns to Skills; Unobserved Heterogeneity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
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