Comparison Wage in Trade Union Decision Making
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Keywords
Comparison Wage; Trade Union Decision Making; Union Bargaining;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
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