Downward nominal-wage flexibility: Real or measurement error?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 556-568

  Gottschalk, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 23844540968     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0034653054638328     Document Type: Article

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