Are vacancies difficult to fill? an empirical investigation of the Dutch labour market

Applied Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 349-357

  Van Ommeren, Jos N ^a   Russo, Giovanni ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDY; LABOUR MARKET; RECRUITMENT BEHAVIOUR; SEARCH PROCESS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031393067     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368497327128     Document Type: Article

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