Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: An Empirical Analysis

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 403-418

  Belot, Michele ^b   Van Ours, Jan C ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Labor market institutions; OECD; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035624871     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jjie.2001.0486     Document Type: Article

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