Productivity, seniority and wages: New evidence from personnel data

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 359-387

  Flabbi, Luca ^a   Ichino, Andrea ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

J30; J31; Productivity; Returns to seniority; Wage determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041329791     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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