How is labor distinct from broccoli?: Some unique characteristics of labor and their importance for economic analysis and policy

The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 146-158

  Prasch, Robert E ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

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