The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 971-986

  Christiansen, Charlotte ^a,b   Joensen, Juanna Schröter ^b   Nielsen, Helena Skyt ^a,b,c  

^a CREATES ^*  (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Educational Choice; Efficient Frontier; Human Capital Investment; Mean Variance Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548956041     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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