Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labour Market

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 347-374

  Foster, Andrew D ^a   Rosenzweig, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001034088     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2297887     Document Type: Article

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