Choice and success of job search methods

Empirical Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 153-178

  Weber, Andrea ^a,b   Mahringer, Helmut ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

Job search; Search channels; Selectivity bias

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; JOB SEARCH; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE DETERMINATION;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 50149114960     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0148-z     Document Type: Article

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