Aggregate matching efficiency: A stochastic production frontier approach, France 1990-1994

Empirica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-25

  Ibourk, Aomar ^a   Maillard, Bénédicte ^b   Perelman, Sergio ^c   Sneessens, Henri R ^d,e  

^a Université de Marrakech   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Matching efficiency; Regional unemployment; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2442712432     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMPI.0000024046.48027.bc     Document Type: Article

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