The limits of wage flexibility to curing unemployment

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 63-72

  Freeman, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002269478     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/11.1.63     Document Type: Article

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