Returns to education in Vietnam: A changing landscape
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Keywords
Returns to education; Relative labour demand; Skill-biased technological change; Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) data; Vietnam;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
- P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General
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