Interfirm Mobility, Wages and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the United States

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 972-1001

  Buchinsky, Moshe ^a   Fougère, Denis ^b   Kramarz, Francis ^c   Tchernis, Rusty ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS CREST INSEE CEPR and IZA   (Spain)

^c CREST INSEE CEPR and IZA ^*  (Spain)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; INCOME; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954036423     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.598.x     Document Type: Article

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