Does Germany have the ‘World’s Highest Wage Costs‘?
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عنوان ژورنال: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
سال: 1999
ISSN: 2366-049X,0021-4027
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1999-5-613