Wage bargaining, union membership, and the organization of unemployment insurance

Labour Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 397-415

  Holmlund, Bertil ^a   Lundborg, Per ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FIEF   (Sweden)

Author keywords

J50; J65; J68; Unemployment insurance; Union membership; Wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001656988     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00010-X     Document Type: Article

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