Sheepskin effects in the returns to education

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-219

  Silles, Mary ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36749103295     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600706099     Document Type: Article

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