How Employers Use Signals of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills at Labour Market Entry: Insights from Field Experiments

European Sociological Review

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 521-532

  Protsch, Paula ^a   Solga, Heike ^a,b  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84943521766     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: 14682672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcv056     Document Type: Article

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