Abstract
This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical debate about the origins of the institutions it describes and their significance for the operation of the U.S. economic system.
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- Year
- 2020
- Type
- book
- Citations
- 1918
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- 10.1201/9781003069720