The elasticity and efficiency of job matching in Dutch regional labour markets

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 449-465

  Broersma, Lourens ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOB MATCHING; LABOUR MARKET; MATCHING FUNCTION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031393839     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1997.tb00703.x     Document Type: Article

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