How flexible are wages in EU accession countries?

Labour Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 431-450

  Iara, Anna ^a   Traistaru, Iulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EU accession countries; Panel data; Wage flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542503475     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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