Seniority wages and establishment characteristics

Labour Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 853-861

  Zwick, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Establishment characteristics; Linked employer employee data; Seniority wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955160779     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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