University quality and labour market outcomes in Italy

Labour

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-62

  Di Pietro, Giorgio ^a   Cutillo, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644794733     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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