Fixed or flexible? Wage-setting in search equilibrium

Economica

Volumn 70, Issue 278, 2003, Pages 233-250

  Ellingsen, Tore ^a   Rosén, Åsa ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0038667866     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.t01-1-00281     Document Type: Article

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