Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy: (Why) Are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.164555