Jobs for young university graduates

Economics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-277

  Cardoso, Ana Rute ^a,b,c  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

College jobs; Wage premium; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846328407     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.042     Document Type: Article

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