Help wanted, job needed: Estimates of a matching function from employment service data

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Berman, Eli ^a  

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EID: 0039054589     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/209863     Document Type: Article

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