Scarce Human Capital in Managerial Labor Markets

Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 399-421

  Mackey, Alison ^a   Molloy, Janice C ^b   Morris, Shad S ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross sectional times series design; human capital; microeconomic analysis of panel data; positive assortative matching; resource based theory; strategic factor markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893495005     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206313517265     Document Type: Article

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