Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-95

Economics of Transition

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 481-503

  Noorkôiv, Rivo ^a   Orazem, Peter F ^b   Puur, Allan ^c   Vodopivec, Milan ^d  

^a EKE ARIKO Consulting Ltd   (Estonia)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Eesti Korgkoolidevaheline Demouuringute Keskus   (Estonia)

^d World Bank GEA Coll E   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Economic reform; Employment; Estonia; Labor market; Wage

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; WAGE;

ESTONIA;

EID: 0344699455     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.1998.tb00060.x     Document Type: Article

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