Is the efficiency wage efficient when workers decide on the working time?

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 267-281

  Chang, Juin Jen ^a   Huang, Chun Chieh ^b   Lai, Ching Chong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Efficiency wages; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036956969     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-002-0543-z     Document Type: Article

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