Labour market influence on recruitment to higher education - Gender and class perspectives

Higher Education

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-148

  Berggren, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Class; Gender; Grade point average; Labour market; Logistic regression; Recession; Recruitment to higher education; Register data; SweSAT

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645794957     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-004-5793-y     Document Type: Review

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