Minimum Wages, Employer-Provided Health Insurance, and the Non-discrimination Law

Industrial Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-262

  Marks, Mindy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; LABOR POLICY; MINIMUM WAGE;

EID: 79953023010     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2011.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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