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The Dunlop Report: European links and other odd connections

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The author thanks without implicating Samuel Estreicher, Hoyt Wheeler, and W. Stanley Siebert for helpful discussions in connection with this paper.

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Addison, J.T. The Dunlop Report: European links and other odd connections. Journal of Labor Research 17, 77–99 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02685783

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