What's wrong with forced wage compression? The fair wage hypothesis redux

Economics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-398

  Alexopoulos, Michelle ^a   Cohen, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficiency wages; Fairness; Wage compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942444631     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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