Wage premia and skill upgrading in Italy: Why didn't the hound bark?

Labour Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-83

  Manasse, Paolo ^a   Stanca, Luca ^b   Turrini, Alessandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Labor market; Technology; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346492621     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00051-4     Document Type: Article

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