Investing in skill: To stay on or not to stay on?

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 130-145

  Bennett, Robert ^a   Glennerster, Howard ^a   Nevison, Douglas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001626218     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/8.2.130     Document Type: Article

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