Works Councils and Employment Growth: A Rejoinder to Uwe Jirjahn's Critique

Industrielle Beziehungen

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 427-435

  Addison, John T ^a,b   Lane, Hugh C ^a,b   Teixeira, Paulino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Employment Adjustment; Employment Growth; Survival Bias; Works Councils

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952229443     PISSN: 09432779     EISSN: 18620035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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