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Education-Job (Mis)Matching And Interregional Migration: Italian University Graduates’ Transition To Work

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  • Simona Iammarino

    (Department of Geography & Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Elisabetta Marinelli

    (European Commission JRC-IPTS, Sevilla, Spain)

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  • Simona Iammarino & Elisabetta Marinelli, 2012. "Education-Job (Mis)Matching And Interregional Migration: Italian University Graduates’ Transition To Work," Working Papers 8, Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research, revised Sep 2012.
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