Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 313-333

  Burgess, Simon ^a,b   Profit, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs   (Germany)

Author keywords

E24; Externalities; J64; Matching model; Spatial dependence; Unemployment outflows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042832404     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00036-7     Document Type: Article

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