Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1783-1807

  Mourre, Gilles ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GROWTH; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY;

EID: 33748098543     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427072     Document Type: Article

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