Wage compression, wage drift and wage inflation in Sweden

Labour Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-141

  Hibbs Jr , Douglas A ^a   Locking, Håkan ^b  

^a Trade Union Inst for Economic Res   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central bargaining; Wage distribution; Wage drift; Wage inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030243381     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-5371(95)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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