The effects of employment protection: Learning from variable enforcement

European Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2057-2077

  Boeri, Tito ^a   Jimeno, Juan F ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency wages; Employment protection and job loss

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 27144539151     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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