Endogenous wage bargaining institutions in oligopolistic sectors

Economic Theory

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-73

  Petrakis, Emmanuel ^a   Vlassis, Minas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bargaining institutions; Minimum wage; Oligopoly; Unions; Wage negotiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942733391     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-003-0410-3     Document Type: Article

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