Including jobs in benefit-cost analysis

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-73

  Bartik, Timothy J ^a  

^a WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research   (United States)

Author keywords

occupational upgrading; reservation wages; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870024056     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-110811-114520     Document Type: Review

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