Education, employment status and earnings: a comparative test of the strong screening hypothesis

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 586-591

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Sessions, John G ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; INCOME; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0031774106     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00113     Document Type: Article

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