The theory of the open shop trade union reconsidered

Labour Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-84

  Corneo, Giacomo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Signalling; Social custom; Trade union membership

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031093560     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(96)00023-1     Document Type: Article

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