Firms' human capital, R&D and performance: A study on French and Swedish firms

Labour Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 443-462

  Ballot, Gérard ^a   Fakhfakh, Fathi ^a   Taymaz, Erol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

D24; GMM; Human capital; J24; O30; Performance; R D; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043263385     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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