The wage premium puzzle and the quality of human capital
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Keywords
Labor supply; Wages;JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2011-03-26 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2011-03-26 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2011-03-26 (Labour Economics)
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