Employment as a Price or a Prize of Equality: A Descriptive Analysis

To put Scandinavian employment in perspective, we ask whether wage compression hampers employment rates, or not. We answer by reviewing the most important theoretical arguments and the most informative regularities across countries with different wage distributions. The pattern seems to be that coun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erling Barth, Karl Ove Moene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aalborg University 2012-06-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
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Online Access:https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/26782