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Overqualification: permanent or transitory?

Christa Frei Economics Department, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Alfonso Sousa-Poza Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 48, 70599 Stuttgart, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1837-1847 | Published online: 01 Apr 2011

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