Centralized wage bargaining and the "Celtic Tiger" phenomenon

Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 426-455

  Baccaro, Lucio ^a   Simoni, Marco ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; COMPETITIVENESS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; POLICY STRATEGY; PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250734925     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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