AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Jin Hwa Jung (Seoul National University)

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM

Session: Technological Change, Educational Returns, and Earnings Inequality: The Experience of Growing Asian Economies (AEA)

Presiding: Richard Freeman (Harvard University)

Explaining Rising Return to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Xuejun Liu (Beijing Normal University)
Albert Park (Oxford University)
Yaohui Zhao (Peking University)
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The Stable Wage Distribution in Japan 1982-2002: A Counter Example for SBTC?
Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Yuko Mori (Hitotsubashi University)
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Technological Change and Returns to Education: Implications for the S&E Labor Market
Jin Hwa Jung (Seoul National University)
Kang-Shik Choi (Yonsei University)
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Why Graduates Can't Find Jobs in a Soaring Economy: Rent-Seeking Migration of College-Educated Young Workers in China
Tao Li (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
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