Returns to Higher Education - a regional perspective
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- Mikaela Backman & Lina Bjerke, 2014. "Returns to higher education: a regional perspective," Chapters,in: Knowledge, Innovation and Space, chapter 10, pages 237-264 Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Keywords
returns to higher education; regional attractiveness; Sweden; Mincer equation;JEL classification:
- H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2009-04-05 (All new papers)
- NEP-EDU-2009-04-05 (Education)
- NEP-GEO-2009-04-05 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-HRM-2009-04-05 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2009-04-05 (Labour Economics)
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