The role of geographic mobility in reducing education-job mismatches in the Netherlands

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 667-682

  Hensen, Maud M ^a   De Vries, M Robert ^b   Cörvers, Frank ^c  

^a ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geographic labour mobility; Job mismatch; Occupational choice

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION; JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MOBILITY; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SECONDARY EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WAGE;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68549135275     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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