Pay policies of firms and collective wage contracts - An uneasy partnership?

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-67

  Gerlach, Knut ^a   Stephan, Gesine ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; LABOR POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY; WAGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33645979351     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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