The minimum wage and competing ethical conceptions

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations

Volumn 16, Issue , 2009, Pages 181-210

  Levin Waldman, Oren M ^a  

^a Metropolitan College of New York   (United States)

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EID: 77951042338     PISSN: 07426186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-6186(2009)0000016011     Document Type: Article

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