Regional unemployment in Spain: Disparities, business cycle and wage setting

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 885-914

  Bande, Roberto ^a   Fernández, Melchor ^a   Montuenga, Víctor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b University of La   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Disparities; Regional unemployment; Wage setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949097932     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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