The European economic and monetary union and labour market reform

European Union Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-27

  Bednarek Sekunda, Elzbieta ^a   Jong A Pin, Richard ^b   de Haan, Jakob ^b  

^a Ministry of Finance in Poland   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMU; Labour market reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649252111     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116509353458     Document Type: Article

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