Looking for a needle in a haystack? A re-examination of the time series relationship between teenage employment and minimum wages in the United States

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL., 2002, Pages 699-725

  Bazen, Stephen ^a   Marimoutou, Velayoudom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

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EID: 0042664193     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.64.s.7     Document Type: Review

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