Employers' hiring practices, employment protection, and costly search: A vacancy-level analysis

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 461-479

  Brenčič, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Employment protection; Qualification mismatch; Search costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749113811     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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