The costs of wrongful-discharge laws

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-231

  Autor, David H ^a,b   Donohue III, John J ^b,c   Schwab, Stewart J ^d  

^a MIT Department of Economics

^b NBER ^*

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIT Sloan School of Management   (United States)

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EID: 33745442207     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.88.2.211     Document Type: Article

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