Wages and productivity growth in a competitive industry

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-69

  Bester, Helmut ^a   Petrakis, Emmanuel ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Industry dynamics; Process innovation; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038626223     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0531(02)00037-6     Document Type: Article

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