Employment protection: Tough to scrap or tough to get?

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 521, 2007, Pages

  Brügemann, Björn ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FIRM SIZE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY;

EID: 34347389438     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02061.x     Document Type: Article

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