Offer heterogeneity in the standard search model: Implications for the duration of unemployment and reemployment wages

Labour Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-215

  Rao Sahib, Padma ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

C23; Heterogeneity; J64; Job search; Offer arrival rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038909792     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(97)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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