Mind the gap: Collective bargaining and wage inequality

The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy: Negotiating for Social Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 136-186

  Hayter, Susan ^a   Weinberg, Bradley ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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