Search costs and re-employment wage gains for displaced workers

Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 589-609

  D'Arcy, Laura P ^a,b,c   Stater, Mark ^a,b,c   Wenger, Jeffrey B ^a,b,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; JOB SEARCH; UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 69449097916     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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