The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 49-66

  Freeman, Richard B ^b   Schettkat, Ronald ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Employment; Skills; Unemployment; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004456961     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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