Volume 28 - Article 20 | Pages 581–612  

Age, education, and earnings in the course of Brazilian development: Does composition matter?

By Ernesto F.L. Amaral, Joseph E. Potter, Daniel Hamermesh, Eduardo L.G. Rios Neto

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