The productivity and wage effects of foreign acquisition in the United Kingdom

Journal of Industrial Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-102

  Conyon, Martin J ^a   Girma, Sourafel ^b   Thompson, Steve ^b   Wright, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0036001891     PISSN: 00221821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6451.00169     Document Type: Article

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