Is unemployment lower if unions bargain over employment?

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 773-787

  Layard, Richard ^a   Nickell, Stephen ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84963071544     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2937898     Document Type: Article

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