Globalisation and the effects of national versus international competition on the labour market: Theory and evidence from Belgian firm level data

World Economy

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1151-1177

  Vandenbussche, Hylke ^a   Konings, Jozef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; GLOBALIZATION; LABOR MARKET; TRADE POLICY;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0032424731     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9701.00186     Document Type: Article

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