Wage coordination and unemployment dynamics in Norway and Sweden

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-58

  Barkbu, Bergljot Bjørnson ^a   Nymoen, Ragnar ^b   Røed, Knut ^c  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c RAGNAR FRISCH CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Centralisation; Corporatism; Decentralisation; Econometric modelling; Economic institutions; Income policies; Unemployment; Wage setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037346975     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-5357(03)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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