Sweden: A minimum wage model in need of modification

The Minimum Wage Revisited in the Enlarged EU

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 367-405

  Skedinger, Per ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

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