Unemployment and hours of work: The North Atlantic divide revisited

International Economic Review

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-36

  Pissarides, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 33846916981     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: 14682354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2007.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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