Empirical tests of efficiency wage models

Economica

Volumn 65, Issue 257, 1998, Pages 125-143

  Huang, Tzu Ling ^a   Hallam, Arne ^b   Orazem, Peter F ^b   Paterno, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007745817     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.00117     Document Type: Article

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