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Direct linkvan der Merwe, Alex – Education Economics, 2011
Human capital theory holds that a higher education will be pursued to the extent that its pecuniary rewards outstrip its costs. This notion is founded on the neoclassical economic assumption that expected earnings conditional on educational investment are accurately anticipated by those considering such investments. However, the evidence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Human Capital, Education Work Relationship
