The changing graduate labour market: analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Green, Francis ^a   Henseke, Golo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher education; Overeducation; Skills; Tertiary education; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983554857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21939004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40173-016-0070-0     Document Type: Article

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