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Applied Economics Letters Volume 4, 1997 - Issue 8
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Specification issues in the modelling of union status determination

Keith A. Bender Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Edward Wright Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Scotland
Pages 481-485 | Received 04 Jun 1996, Published online: 03 Sep 2008

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