Are Austrian returns to education falling over time?

Labour Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-89

  Fersterer, Josef ^a   Winter Ebmer, Rudolf ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Quantile regression; Returns to education; Sample selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037300471     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00105-7     Document Type: Article

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