Additional evidence for the career concern hypothesis with uncertainty of the retirement period - the case of professional baseball players in Japan

Applied Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1481-1487

  Ohkusa, Yasushi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; RETIREMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032723639     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368499323346     Document Type: Article

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