Job rotation: Cost, benefits, and stylized facts

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Coşgel, Metin M ^a   Miceli, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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