Job turnover, wage rates, and marital stability: How are they related?

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-249

  Ahituv, Avner ^a   Lerman, Robert I ^b  

^a Carmel Academic Center   (Israel)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job turnover; Marriage and marital dissolution; Panel data; Wage rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957461511     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-010-9101-6     Document Type: Article

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