Wage bargaining institutions in europe. A Happy Marriage or Preparing for Divorce?

AIEL Series in Labour Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 123-156

  Visser, Jelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84885140115     PISSN: 1863916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-1923-6_7     Document Type: Article

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