Labor market conditions, political events, and palestinian suicide bombings

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Sayre, Edward A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor market; Terrorism; Unemployment; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650879293     PISSN: 10792457     EISSN: 15548597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1554-8597.1134     Document Type: Article

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