Institutional reforms and dualism in european labor markets

Handbook of Labor Economics

Volumn 4, Issue PART B, 2011, Pages 1173-1236

  Boeri, Tito ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dualism; Reforms; Two tier reforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953079581     PISSN: 15734463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(11)02411-7     Document Type: Book

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