Import competition, employment risk, and the job-search outcomes of trade-displaced manufacturing workers

Industrial Relations

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 182-206

  Clark, Don P ^b   Herzog Jr , Henry W ^b   Schlottmann, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACED WORKERS; JOB SEARCH; LABOUR MARKET; MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0031866932     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0019-8676.00082     Document Type: Article

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