Are Union Members Happy Workers after All? Evidence from Eastern and Western European Labor Markets
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Keywords
Unions; job satisfaction; EVS;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
- J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2009-09-05 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2009-09-05 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LAB-2009-09-05 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2009-09-05 (Transition Economics)
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