Labor and product market reforms: Questioning policy complementarity

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-122

  Amable, Bruno ^a   Gatti, Donatella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; MODELING; WAGE;

EID: 33645142207     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtj004     Document Type: Article

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