What has happened to the union wage differential in Britain in the 1990s?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-31

  Hildreth, Andrew ^a  

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EID: 0033424423     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00114     Document Type: Article

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