Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 371-393

  Feenstra, Robert C ^a,b   Hanson, Gordon H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investment; Multinational enterprises; Outsourcing; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000132263     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(96)01475-4     Document Type: Article

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