Job creation, job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's

Economic Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-154

  Faggio, Giulia ^a   Konings, Jozef ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Economics Department   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Job creation; Job destruction; Ownership; Transition economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042366180     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-3625(03)00036-0     Document Type: Article

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