Flexible pay, firm performance and the role of unions. New evidence from Italy

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-78

  Origo, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATT; Firm performance; Matching estimators; Performance related pay; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649089129     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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