Lower wage rates for fewer hours? A simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Labour Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 643-663

  Wolf, Elke ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Wage structure; Working hours

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036837568     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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