Towards a European social union: Impacts on labor markets in the acceding countries

Constitutional Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 313-335

  Belke, Ansgar ^a   Hebler, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 0347039684     PISSN: 10434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020806903205     Document Type: Article

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