Empirical matching functions: Searchers, vacancies, and (un-)biased elasticities

Economica

Volumn 74, Issue 295, 2007, Pages 537-560

  Sunde, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; JOB SEARCH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34447521653     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2006.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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