Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution

1958/08/01 by Jacob Mincer · 3,779 citations
Computer Science · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Advanced Technologies in Various Fields #Capital (architecture) #Distribution (mathematics) #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Economics #Evaluation Methods in Various Fields #Income distribution #Inequality #Investment (military) #Labour economics #Macroeconomics #Mathematics #Microeconomics #Personal income

paper · doi:10.1086/258055

published in Journal of Political Economy 66(4), 281-302 (University of Chicago Press)

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