Unionisation and foreign direct investment: Challenging conventional wisdom?

Economic Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 462, 2000, Pages 80-92

  Leaky, Dermot ^b   Montagna, Catia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT LOCATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; WAGE;

EID: 0034114617     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00522     Document Type: Article

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