Are successive investments in education equally worthwhile? Endogenous schooling decisions and non-linearities in the earnings-schooling relationship

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-231

  Skalli, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

Author keywords

Human capital; Rate of return

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; INVESTMENT; NONLINEARITY;

EID: 33947174743     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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