Does wage dispersion make all firms productive?

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-489

  Mahy, Benoît ^a   Rycx, François ^b,c   Volral, Mélanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANEL DATA; PRODUCTIVITY; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE DETERMINATION; WORKPLACE;

BELGIUM;

EID: 79959199843     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2011.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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