On the dynamics of unemployment and wage distributions

Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1327-1355

  Robin, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a SCIENCES PO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequality; Search matching; Unemployment dynamics; Wage distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053062732     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9070     Document Type: Article

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