Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition among Applicants
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Copyright 2018
DOI 10.1086/694908
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Copy CitationEdward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher T. Stanton, Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck (Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1, 2015), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/firms-and-distribution-income-roles-productivity-and-luck/who-gets-hired-importance-competition-among-applicants.
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