Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 478-494

  Davis, Donald R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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