The centralization of wage bargaining revisited: What have we learnt?

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 731-756

  Driffill, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749558155     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00660.x     Document Type: Review

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