'Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogeneous labour - elasticity estimates from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1177-1182

  Freier, Ronny ^a   Steiner, Viktor ^b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; MODELING; PANEL DATA; SKILLED LABOR; SOCIAL SECURITY; WAGE DETERMINATION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

GERMANY;

EID: 77954851926     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840902862140     Document Type: Article

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