Social preferences, skill segregation, and wage dynamics

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-98

  Cabrales, Antonio ^a   Calvó Armengol, Antoni ^b   Pavoni, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; MODELING; PRODUCTIVITY; SKILLED LABOR; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; WAGE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 37049014755     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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