Wage-setting institutions as industrial policy

Labour Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-377

  Davis, Steven J ^a   Henrekson, Magnus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Centralized wage setting; Industry distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144385500     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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