Working in public and private firms

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 1335-1352

  Corneo, Giacomo ^a   Rob, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentive schemes; Privatization; Public enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041842395     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00199-2     Document Type: Article

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