Employment Growth through Labor Flow Networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Guerrero, Omar A ^a   Axtell, Robert L ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR FLOW NETWORK; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK; WORKER;

AGE FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84877050579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060808     Document Type: Article

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