Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Labour Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-428

  Eriksson, Stefan ^a   Gottfries, Nils ^a,b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Efficiency wage; Labour mobility; Persistence; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244362312     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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