A longitudinal analysis of search frictions and matching in the U.S. labor market

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-134

  Jolivet, Grégory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job to job mobility; Labor market frictions; Matching; Wage distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249103462     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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