General versus specific skills in labor markets with search frictions and firing costs

American Economic Review

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 811-831

  Wasmer, Etienne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CIRPEE ^*  (Canada)

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EID: 33747631579     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.3.811     Document Type: Review

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