Causal returns to education: A survey on empirical evidence for Germany

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-23

  Flossmann, Anton L ^a   Pohlmeier, Winfried ^a,b  

^a University of Konstanz ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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