Wage moderation does not work: Unemployment in Europe

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 391-397

  Stockhammer, Engelbert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Keynesian economics; NAIRU; Unemployment; Wage moderation; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548150252     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613407305289     Document Type: Article

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