To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?
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labour market; graduate; science;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2012-02-27 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-02-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SOG-2012-02-27 (Sociology of Economics)
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