Learning and wage dynamics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1006-1047

  Farber, Henry S ^a   Gibbons, Robert ^a  

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EID: 0039120732     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2946706     Document Type: Article

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