The incidence of overschooling and underschooling and its effect on earnings in the United States and Hong Kong

Research in Labor Economics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2000, Pages 29-61

  Cohn, Elchanan ^a   Johnson, Eric ^a   Ng, Ying Chu ^a  

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