Explaining unemployment: Some lessons from Nordic wage formation

Labour Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-29

  Nymoen, Ragnar ^a   Rødseth, Asbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Labor market policy; Unemployment; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037301160     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00133-1     Document Type: Article

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