The collapse of a medical labor clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

American Economic Review

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 878-889

  Nicholas Mckinney, C ^a   Niederle, Muriel ^b,c   Roth, Alvin E ^d  

^a RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30044448971     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/0002828054201323     Document Type: Review

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