The effect of employer-sponsored education on job mobility: Evidence from the U.S. Navy

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 341-363

  Buddin, Richard ^a   Kapur, Kanika ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MOBILITY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17144362918     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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