The health effects of wage setting institutions: how collective bargaining improves health but not because it reduces inequality
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collective bargaining; infant mortality; life expectancy; minimum wage; mortality rates; Wellcome Trust (Grant Number 220206/Z/20/Z) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Grant Number 1503002).;All these keywords.
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- N0 - Economic History - - General
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