Employment protection: Do firms' perceptions match with legislation?

Economics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 328-334

  Pierre, Gaëlle ^a   Scarpetta, Stefano ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment protection legislation; Enterprise surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344461729     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.026     Document Type: Article

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