Wage expectations: A comparison of Swiss and US students

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Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-69

  Wolter, Stefan C ^a,b  

^a Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; WAGE;

SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034071612     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6435.00109     Document Type: Article

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