Overeducation and the skills of UK graduates

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-337

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a   Lindley, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Overeducation; Skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249120330     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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