An Internal Labor Market Approach to Labor Law: Does Labor Law Promote Efficient Contracting?

Co-author(s)

Michael Wachter

Date

1988

Citation

George M. Cohen & Michael Wachter, An Internal Labor Market Approach to Labor Law: Does Labor Law Promote Efficient Contracting?, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting - Industrial Relations Research Association 243 (1988).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

George M. Cohen

Public Policy and Regulation

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

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