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Cross-National Variations in the Under-Reporting of Wages in South-East Europe: A Result of Over-Regulation or Under-Regulation? Cover

Cross-National Variations in the Under-Reporting of Wages in South-East Europe: A Result of Over-Regulation or Under-Regulation?

By: Colin Williams  
Open Access
|Jul 2012

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Language: English
Page range: 53 - 61
Published on: Jul 26, 2012
Published by: University of Sarajevo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2012 Colin Williams, published by University of Sarajevo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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