Shadow Wages for the EU Regions

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-143

  Del Bo, Chiara ^a   Fiorio, Carlo ^a   Florio, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

D61; EU regions; H43; Project evaluation; R23; Shadow wage

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952576600     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: 14755890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2011.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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