Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 521, 2007, Pages

  Koeniger, Winfried ^a,b   Prat, Julien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FIRM SIZE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; OECD; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 34347402231     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02058.x     Document Type: Article

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