A new look at private rates of return to education in Switzerland

Education + Training

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 366-373

  Weber, Bernhard A ^b  

^a Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human capital theory; Labour market; Pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986106183     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400919910298639     Document Type: Review

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