Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Wang Sheng ^a   Suardi, Sandy ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 79959283691     PISSN: 00071080     EISSN: 14678543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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