Employer size-wage effects: Evidence from matched employer-employee survey data in the UK

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 185-193

  Belfield, Clive R ^a   Wei, Xiangdong ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FIRM SIZE; LABOR MARKET; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342309580     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000175316     Document Type: Article

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