No credit for transition: European institutions and German unemployment

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-60

  Driffill, John ^a   Miller, Marcus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; TAX SYSTEM; TRADE UNION; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 0041352230     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00253     Document Type: Article

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