Wage incentives and wage rigidity: A representative view from within

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-369

  Agell, Jonas ^a   Bennmarker, Helge ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioral macroeconomics; Matched data; Survey evidence; Wage incentives; Wage rigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247198844     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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