Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-41

  Burda, Michael C ^a   Mertens, Antje ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Displaced workers; J30; J63; J65; Tenure; Wage rigidity; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009805973     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(00)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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