Skill transferability, regret and mobility

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1663-1677

  Borghans, Lex ^a   Golsteyn, Bart H H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; PROBABILITY; SKILLED LABOR; STUDENT; WAGE;

EID: 34547500326     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600675661     Document Type: Article

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