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  1. CNRS, CREST-INSEE, Paris

    Denis Fougère

  2. CEPR, London

    Denis Fougère

  3. IZA, Bonn

    Denis Fougère

  4. CNRS and CREST-INSEE, Paris, CREST-INSEE 15, Boulevard Gabriel Péri, 92245 Malakoff cedex, France

    Thierry Kamionka

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    Patrick Sevestre

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Fougère, D., Kamionka, T. (2008). Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions. In: Mátyás, L., Sevestre, P. (eds) The Econometrics of Panel Data. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75892-1_25

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