The thick market effect on local unemployment rate fluctuations

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-152

  Gan, Li ^a,b   Zhang, Qinghua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Local unemployment fluctuation; Matching; Thick market effect

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CYCLICAL FLUCTUATIONS; LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT FLUCTUATION; MATCHING; THICK MARKET EFFECT;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33745847769     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2005.03.011     Document Type: Article

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