Patterns of work across the OECD

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 521, 2007, Pages

  Faggio, Giulia ^a   Nickell, Stephen ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; OECD; TRADE UNION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34347391460     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02062.x     Document Type: Article

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