Unemployment, discouraged workers and female labour supply

Research in Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-131

  Blundell, Richard ^b   Ham, John ^a   Meghir, Costas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cross section data; Discouraged workers; Labour supply; Limited dependent variables; Search models; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032090789     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reec.1997.0158     Document Type: Article

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