Calculating the price of worker reliability

Labour Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-188

  Coles, Melvyn G ^a   Treble, John G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Contracts; Shadow pricing; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030243409     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-5371(96)00008-5     Document Type: Article

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