Does supranational coordination erode its national basis? the case of european labour market policy and German industrial relations

EIOP European Integration Online Papers

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Niechoj, Torsten ^a  

^a Institut fur Makrookonomie und Konjunkturforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Economic policy; Germany; Industrial relations; Open coordination; Policy coordination; Political science

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749106481     PISSN: 10275193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1695/2009010     Document Type: Article

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