Workers or employers: Who is shaping wage inequality?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 523-547

  Cardoso, Ana Rute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

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EID: 0031483350     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00081     Document Type: Article

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