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Alternative Measures of Slackness in the Labor Market and Their Relationship to Wage and Price Inflation

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  • John Haltiwanger & Mark Plant, 1986. "Alternative Measures of Slackness in the Labor Market and Their Relationship to Wage and Price Inflation," UCLA Economics Working Papers 400, UCLA Department of Economics.
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