Labor market flows over the business cycle: An asymmetric hiring cost explanation

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 641-653

  Schettkat, Ronald ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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