Do chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? evidence from an internet job board

Research in Labor Economics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-30

  Shen, Kailing ^a   Kuhn, Peter ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

China; Internet job board; Job search and match; Labor demand; Overqualification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886657869     PISSN: 01479121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0147-9121(2013)0000037005     Document Type: Article

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