Unions without rents: The curious economics of faculty unions

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-52

  Hosios, Arthur J ^a   Siow, Aloysius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1942539252     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-4085.2004.002_1.x     Document Type: Article

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