On the benefits from rigid labour markets: Norms, market failures, and social insurance

Economic Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 453, 1999, Pages 143-164

  Agell, Jonas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032961897     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00406     Document Type: Article

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