Quality of Work and Aggregate Productivity

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-66

  Royuela, Vicente ^a   Suriñach, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Productivity; Quality of work; Simultaneous equation models; Spain

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; WORKING CONDITIONS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84879687309     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0081-1     Document Type: Article

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