Rent sharing before and after the wage bill

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2133-2151

  Martins, Pedro S ^a,b,c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; EXCHANGE RATE; EXPORT; FIRM SIZE; LABOR MARKET; PANEL DATA; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 78649702016     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701736164     Document Type: Article

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