Promoting product market competition to reduce unemployment in Europe: An alternative approach?

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Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-134

  Gersbach, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; LABOR MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0034046388     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6435.00113     Document Type: Article

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