Gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability: New evidence from employer-employee data

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 915-937

  Frederiksen, Anders ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employer employee data; Employment stability; Job separations; Labor reallocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149119079     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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