Minimum wages and employment: Comment

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 166-172

  Watson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; MINIMUM WAGE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 3242695962     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2004.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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