Fiscal institutions and wage bargaining in the local public sector

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-82

  Strøm, Bjarne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fiscal system; Grants; Local governments; Union wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033445773     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00141     Document Type: Article

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