Job displacement risk and the cost of business cycles

American Economic Review

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 664-686

  Krebs, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 34547364637     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.3.664     Document Type: Article

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