A model of asymmetric employer learning with testable implications

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 367-394

  Pinkston, Joshua C ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPLOYMENT; LEARNING; MODELING; WAGE;

EID: 58149313866     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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