The unbearable stability of the German wage structure: Evidence and interpretation

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 354-385

  Prasad, Eswar S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

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