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Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’

Ewan Wrighta Department of Education Policy and Leadership, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Education University of Hong Kong, Ting Kok, Hong KongCorrespondence[email protected]
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Benjamin Mulveyb Department of International Education, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Education University of Hong Kong, Ting Kok, Hong KongORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2847-6604
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Pages 339-356 | Received 24 Mar 2020, Accepted 27 Jan 2021, Published online: 03 Mar 2021

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