Estimating the probability of a match using microeconomic data for the youth labour market

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 335-357

  Andrews, Martyn J ^a   Bradley, Steve ^b   Upward, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

J41; J63; J64; Matching probability; Two sided search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008855513     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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