Employee labor market information: Comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates

Labour Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-242

  Polachek, Solomon W ^a   Robst, John ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

J0; J3; National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM); Stochastic frontier estimation; Wage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040094106     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(97)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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