New evidence on wages and employment in worker cooperatives compared with capitalist firms

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-533

  Burdín, Gabriel ^a,b   Dean, Andrés ^a  

^a Instituto de Economía   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capitalist firms; Employment; Wages; Worker cooperatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350754630     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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