The wage expectations of European business and economics students

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1116-1142

  Brunello, Giorgio ^a   Lucifora, Claudio ^b   Winter Ebmer, Rudolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11844266497     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3559041     Document Type: Article

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