Wages and Productivity in Belgium, 1910-60.
In the middle of the twentieth century, Belgium seems to have undergone a fairly rapid transformation from a relatively low-wage economy to a high-wage economy. How could Belgian business handle this change in its cost structure? Was it through exceptional technical progress? The best-known statistics concerning productivity growth put Belgium near the bottom of the European league table, so that its gains in the relative wage stakes remain something of a mystery. Here the authors make a first, very tentative, approach to this problem. Copyright 1990 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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1990
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Authors: | Cassiers, Isabelle ; Solar, Peter |
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. - Department of Economics, ISSN 0305-9049. - Vol. 52.1990, 4, p. 437-49
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Department of Economics |
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