Institutions and wages in post–world war II America

Labor in the Era of Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-50

  Levy, Frank ^a   Temin, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511809798.002     Document Type: Chapter

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