Minimum wage policy and its impact on employment in the urban formal sector

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-50

  Suryahadi, Asep ^a   Widyanti, Wenefrida ^a   Perwira, Daniel ^a   Sumarto, Sudarno ^a  

^a SMERU Research Institute   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR POLICY; MINIMUM WAGE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0037991495     PISSN: 00074918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00074910302007     Document Type: Article

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