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Wages, Youth Employment, and School Enrollment

Recent Evidence from Increases in World Oil Prices

René Morissette, Ping Ching Winnie Chan and Yuqian Lu
Journal of Human Resources, January 2015, 50 (1) 222-253; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.50.1.222
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