The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 695-709

  Walker, Ian ^a   Zhu, Yu ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

College premium; Higher education; Human capital

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GENDER ISSUE; HIGHER EDUCATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SKILLED LABOR; STUDENT; WAGE GAP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57249114586     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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