Performance, seniority, and wages: Formal salary systems and individual earnings profiles

Labour Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 741-763

  Dohmen, Thomas J ^a  

^a IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formal salary systems; Internal labor markets; Personnel economics; Returns to seniority

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944245055     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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