Job creation and job destruction in manufacturing industry in Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 72, Issue 216, 1996, Pages 46-62

  Borland, Jeff ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT FLOWS; EMPLOYMENT REALLOCATION; MANUFACTURING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030437818     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1996.tb02608.x     Document Type: Article

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