Job matching, social network and word-of-mouth communication

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 500-522

  Calvó Armengol, Antoni ^a   Zenou, Yves ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Universite du Maine   (Spain)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination failures; Personal communication; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144379983     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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