Returns to university education: Evidence from a Dutch institutional reform

Economica

Volumn 74, Issue 293, 2007, Pages 113-134

  Webbink, Dinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846209907     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2006.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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