"Varieties of minimum wage system" through the dubious lens of indicator-based rankings

International Labour Review

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 261-275

  Lee, Sangheon ^a  

^a International Labour Office   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LABOR POLICY; LABOR STANDARD; MINIMUM WAGE; RANKING;

EID: 84868653918     PISSN: 00207780     EISSN: 1564913X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2012.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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