Trade liberalization and the relative wages for more-skilled workers in Costa Rica

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-154

  Robbins, Donald ^b   Gindling, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIBERALIZATION; SKILLED LABOR; TRADE REFORM; WAGE;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0032791391     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00057     Document Type: Article

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