Product markets and labour markets

Labour Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-20

  Nickell, Stephen ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Labour market; Market power; Product market; Productivity; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033096287     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00005-6     Document Type: Article

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