Has the national minimum wage reduced UK wage inequality?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 613-626

  Dickens, Richard ^a   Manning, Alan ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Minimum wage; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244238989     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.aeI2.x     Document Type: Article

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