Raising the rate: An evaluation of the uprating mechanism for the minimum wage

Employee Relations

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 405-415

  Sachdev, Sanjiv ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

France; Minimum wage; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031696     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450310483406     Document Type: Article

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