Industrial relations, legal regulations, and wage setting

Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 91-146

  Bosch, Gerhard ^a   Mayhew, Ken ^b   Gautié, Jérôme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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