Do Flexible Labor Markets Indeed Reduce Unemployment? A Robustness Check

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 451-467

  Vergeer, Robert ^a   Kleinknecht, Alfred ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

labor market rigidities; NAIRU; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868119059     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.681113     Document Type: Article

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