The effects of human resource management on small firms' productivity and employees' wages

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1047-1054

  de Grip, Andries ^a   Sieben, Inge ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WAGE DETERMINATION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 21244480422     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500092074     Document Type: Article

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