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Educational expansion and the partial devaluation of credentials

Negative effects of educational expansion on occupational returns in Spain by education levels and fields of study

Luis Ortiz, Professor of Political and Social Sciences
Jorge Rodríguez Menés, Professor of Political and Social Sciences,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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