Small firms, contracting-out, computers and wage inequality: Evidence from UK manufacturing

Economica

Volumn 66, Issue 261, 1999, Pages 1-21

  Haskel, Jonathan ^a  

^a CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032902132     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.00153     Document Type: Article

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