An institutionalist approach to work time: Is labor truly irksome?

The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 159-175

  Lajeunesse, Robert M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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