UK wage underpayment: Implications for the minimum wage

Applied Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 429-440

  Watson, Duncan ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INCOME; MINIMUM WAGE; WAGE; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0034103282     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368400322606     Document Type: Article

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