Regional foreign direct investment and wage spillovers: Plant level evidence from the UK electronics industry

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 453-474

  Driffield, Nigel ^a   Girma, Sourafel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0043026637     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.t01-1-00057     Document Type: Article

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