New Insights into Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 794-826

  Fitzenberger, Bernd ^a   Wilke, Ralf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78649590982     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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