Tenuous link: Labour market institutions and unemployment in advanced and new market economies

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 739-769

  Avdagic, Sabina ^a   Salardi, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Labor market institutions; OECD countries; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884748678     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwt009     Document Type: Article

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