Employment Performance and Labor Market Institutions: The Case of Spain

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Llorente, Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Deregulation; Employment; Employment protection; Flexibility; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Regulation; Spain; Unemployment; Unemployment benefits; Wage inequality; Wages; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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