Internal labor markets and worker quits

Industrial Relations

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 573-594

  Fairris, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; SKILLED LABOR; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 3242797560     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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