Explaining the OECD wage slowdown: Recession or labour decline?

European Sociological Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-249

  Western, Bruce ^a   Healy, Kieran ^a  

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EID: 0033473148     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a018262     Document Type: Article

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