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Unemployment Impact of Product and Labor Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries Cover

Unemployment Impact of Product and Labor Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

By: Céline Piton and  François Rycx  
Open Access
|Sep 2019

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Language: English
Published on: Sep 14, 2019
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