Social capital and wages: An econometric evaluation of social networking's effects

Labour

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-236

  Delattre, Eric ^a   Sabatier, Mareva ^b  

^a UMR 8184   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; JOB SEARCH; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 34249745632     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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