Job matching and the wage distribution

Econometrica

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 481-516

  Moscarini, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ergodic analysis; Job matching; Job search; Specific human capi tal; Unemployment; Wage distribution; Wage inequality; Worker flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744489382     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00586.x     Document Type: Review

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