Minimum wages and compliance: The case of Trinidad and Tobago

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 427-450

  Strobl, Eric ^a   Walsh, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MINIMUM WAGE;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 0038079370     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/346051     Document Type: Article

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