Is there a wage payoff to innovative work practices?

Industrial Relations

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-97

  Handel, Michael J ^a   Gittleman, Maury ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242503517     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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