Inside the perpetual-motion machine: Cross-country comparable evidence on job and worker flows at the industry and firm level

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2097-2134

  Bassanini, Andrea ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649589449     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq061     Document Type: Article

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