Human capital revisited: The role of experience and education when controlling for performance and cognitive skills

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1143-1161

  Serneels, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual productivity; Performance appraisal; Wage profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249092929     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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