With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary Economics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1897-9254
DOI: 10.5709/ce.1897-9254.65