The costs of hiring skilled workers

European Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-35

  Blatter, Marc ^a   Muehlemann, Samuel ^a,b   Schenker, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hiring costs; Labor adjustment costs

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FIRM SIZE; LABOR MARKET; MACROECONOMICS; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE;

EID: 84855188747     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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