Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Industrial Relations

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 92-121

  Fairlie, Robert W ^a,b   Kapur, Kanika ^c   Gates, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE; LABOR MOBILITY; RETIREMENT;

EID: 84951299840     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/irel.12127     Document Type: Article

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