The elasticity of labor supply to the firm over the business cycle

Labour Economics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 196-204

  Depew, Briggs ^a   Sørensen, Todd A ^b,c  

^a Louisiana Sea Grant College Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bonn and IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Labor market frictions; Monopsony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884750384     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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