Are Educational Mismatches Responsible for the 'Inequality Increasing Effect' of Education?

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 409-437

  Budría, Santiago ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^b CEEAplA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Educational mismatch; Overeducation; Returns to education; Within groups wage inequality

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABOR MARKET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SKILLED LABOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAGE GAP;

EUROPE;

EID: 79957936537     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9675-7     Document Type: Article

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