Unemployment responses to 'skill-biased' technology shocks: The role of labour market policy

Economic Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 455, 1999, Pages 242-265

  Mortensen, Dale T ^a   Pissarides, Christopher A ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; SKILLED LABOR; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032781094     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00431     Document Type: Article

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