Skills and the graduate recruitment process: Evidence from two discrete experiments
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- Humburg, M. & van der Velden, R.K.W., 2014. "Skills and the graduate recruitment process: Evidence from two discrete choice experiments," ROA Research Memorandum 002, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
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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
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2014-02-15 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-HRM-2014-02-15 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2014-02-15 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SOG-2014-02-15 (Sociology of Economics)
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