Wage Compression and the Unemployment Crisis: Labor Market Institutions, Skills, and Inequality-Unemployment Tradeoffs

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Howell, David R ^a   Huebler, Friedrich ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Employment; Inequality; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Regulation; Skill distribution; Skill mix; Tradeoff; Unemployment; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920750980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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