Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 479-504

  Ebell, Monique ^a,b   Haefke, Christian ^c,d,e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

^d Barcelona)   (Spain)

^e IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Barriers to entry; Product market competition; Wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349178615     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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