Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 475-496

  Bratti, Massimiliano ^a   McKnight, Abigail ^b   Naylor, Robin ^a   Smith, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Higher education; Non random response; Performance indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042758849     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.0apm1.x     Document Type: Article

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