Institutional labor economics, the new personnel economics, and internal labor markets: A reconsideration

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 637-653

  Osterman, Paul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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