Educating for Productivity: Comparisons of Japanese and English Schooling and Vocational Preparation

Pub. Date
01 February, 1987
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National Institute Economic Review

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National Institute Economic Review

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https://doi.org/10.1177/002795018711900104

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Republished in- Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education (1986, no.2) and, in translation, in the Japanese Journal of Vocational Education (November 1988).

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