Wages, mobility and firm performance: Advantages and insights from using matched worker-firm data

Economic Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 512, 2006, Pages

  Abowd, John M ^a   Kramarz, Francis ^b   Roux, Sébastien ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CEPR ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MODELING; WAGE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 33746471137     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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